Duncan Green Citas

• Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

  Duncan Green

  Failing, Floundering, Inevitable

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• I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens.

  Duncan Green

  Matter, Phrases, March

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• The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in workplace trade unions doesn't mean they aren't in associations with other people - work-based, place-based, culture-based, sport-based, faith-based - there's a bit of an old rainbow coalition argument.

  Duncan Green

  Sports, War, Mean

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• Los economistas que estudiaron en los años 80 tienden a tener una visión neoclásica bastante burda que consiste simplemente en liberar los precios y los mercados, y entonces obtendrás el crecimiento y todo el mundo se beneficiará. Y se limitan a repetirlo, porque si eres ministro o alto funcionario, ya no tienes tiempo de leer nada. Te quedas muy fijado en tus puntos de vista.

  Duncan Green

  Senior, Views, Growth

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Hay un gran número de personas que se dedican a escribir artículos que demuestran que los inmigrantes pagan más al país de lo que reciben en prestaciones, y dicen: "¿Por qué no aprueban la inmigración? ¿Por qué no abren las fronteras?". No son capaces de empatizar con lo que siente la gente sobre la migración.

  Duncan Green

  Country, Writing, Numbers

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• People are saying, "I have a right to my opinion. Don't just keep condescending, telling me what to think." There's something slightly liberating about that, but also it lends itself to being taken advantage of, because in come the demagogues.

  Duncan Green

  Tomado, Pensamiento, Gente

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• La muerte de la deferencia parece ser general en estos momentos, así que todo el mundo tiene que ganarse de nuevo su reputación y su confianza. No se consigue por el mero hecho de ser profesor, político o cualquier otra persona.

  Duncan Green

  Reputation, Moments, Politician

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.

  Duncan Green

  Ideas, People, Lobbyists

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• There's a tendency for people who believe passionately in something to be so convinced of their rightness that if they just repeat themselves a lot at the person, that will convince them. And that hasn't worked on things like immigration or trade deals.

  Duncan Green

  Believe, People, Immigration

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• Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.

  Duncan Green

  Russia, Decision, Acting

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• If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who lost limbs in Afghanistan had to prove that their leg hadn't grown back.

  Duncan Green

  Russia, Years, People

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• There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong.

  Duncan Green

  Decision, Pressure, Makers

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• When we do work in places like China and Vietnam, research tends to be really effective as a way of getting change, whereas in more open places, mobilization and the creation of public pressure through the media often seem to be the things we try.

  Duncan Green

  Media, Trying, Vietnam

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• Lots of people in the open system are very determined to try and strengthen evidence-based policy.

  Duncan Green

  People, Trying, Determined

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• We should look at how "the enemy" - people that you wouldn't necessarily agree with - have done change and see whether there's bits in there that we could learn from.

  Duncan Green

  People, Enemy, Done

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• Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a deep curiosity about people and systems and understand them better.

  Duncan Green

  Ideas, People, Curiosity

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• The magic formula is there is no magic formula.

  Duncan Green

  Magic, Formulas

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• Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people who are working on [change] find that very difficult: They've been schooled into thinking you have to come up with the perfect plan in advance. It has become a bit technocratic.

  Duncan Green

  Thinking, Feet, Perfect

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• In the end, that's a blind alley - we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and react.

  Duncan Green

  Thinking, Feet, Able

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• Hay una desviación entre la realidad económica -integración, aldea global, todo el mundo depende de todo el mundo- y la realidad cultural, que es la gente que se siente invadida, socavada, amenazada, que quiere tener una legislación de "stand-your-ground" por todas partes. Es alarmante porque, en este momento, el miedo supera a los beneficios, y eso se debe en parte a que los beneficios se han distribuido de forma tan desigual que mucha gente no se siente mejor. Se sienten amenazados, enfadados y desesperados.

  Duncan Green

  Feel Better, Reality, People

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Until you have looked in depth at the system and found out where women in Egypt are not being cut through female genital mutilation, or where kids in Vietnam are not malnourished, or where hospitals in America are getting rid of the superbugs anyway - unless you have that level of curiosity about what's going on without you, you will always come in with your great new recipe and just ignore what's going on, and that will make you much less effective at what you're trying to achieve.

  Duncan Green

  Kids, Cutting, Egypt

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• What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me."

  Duncan Green

  Ideas, Listen To Me

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• Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.

  Duncan Green

  People, Understanding, Activist

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• The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to connect.

  Duncan Green

  Trying, Lasts, Poor

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• In any system, there will be change happening without you.

  Duncan Green

  Without You, Happenings

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