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The effective decision-maker does not start out with the assumption that one proposed course of action is right and that all others must be wrong. Nor does he start out with the assumption, “I am right and he is wrong.” He starts out with the commitment to find out why people disagree.
The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
Not only do the experts have their own professional ideological commitments, often conflicting with the public interest, but they possess no analytical wizardry capable of resolving our pressing societal problems.
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment - The Politics of Local Knowledge
Frank Fischer
‘Whenever we act’, continues Jacquette, ‘we intend to do something, and our intending intends, is directed toward or about a state of affairs that does not yet exist’ – hence actions are ‘future-directed, and in some cases fiction-directed’, since it may so happen that the state the agent aims at never comes to exist (e.g. utopia).
The Progress of This Storm
Andreas Malm
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