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Welcome to Your Strategic Democracy Orientation

"Prevention is better than cure.” 
​Desiderius Erasmus 

Strategic Democracy Orientation

The universe is not the same without you.
​Unknown Author

1. ​We are different, we are unique, we are one. One human race.
2. ​Our future is too important to be left to politics and economics.
3. We have all that we need to succeed.
4. Now, shall we go there to lead and manage?

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Summary of Orientation

Facta Non Verba. 
​The Latin phrase meaning “Deeds not words."
​Unknown Origin

STOP the noise.

Next, Strategic Democracy overview.

Welcome to Your Strategic Democracy Overview

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
Epictetus

This work, neither promotes a party nor favors any political candidate, nor is skewed towards personalities or favoritism. It focuses on actions and outcomes. It critiques (appreciation &/or criticism) interactions as necessary for knowledge and/or action alongside current situation and/or anticipated future. It is not neutral for it seeks effectiveness, efficiency, and equitability in results. While, respecting your ability, age, economics, education, ethnicity,  gender, politics, and religion.
​This is about democracy in the USA only. Other countries will require customization. ​Nevertheless, other countries can benefit from the practice. The focus is on the executive and legislative branches of the US government, with attention to the supreme court.
They are the population of this work and play a major role in society. That role if poorly lead and managed will hamper: freedom, individual liberty,  representative government, rule of law under God, and future growth & development.
​This overview is intended as a brief to inspire you to look & see, perceive & understand, decide &/or act. ​It contains an overview, as follows:
1- Problem(s).​
2- Solution(s), with emphasis on:

• rebooting Democracy,
• introducing Strategic Democracy, and
• introducing Tamer KARTS.

3- Benefit(s).
4- Summary of Problem, Solution, and Benefit.
5- Intended participants.

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Next, conclusion containing the problem and solution in general.

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1- Problem(s)

First, to do no harm.
​Unknown origin; some attribute it to Hippocrates

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. 
​Mahatma Gandhi

The Problem in Simple Terms
​(7 second soundless video)

The problem in simple term is a gap between what we are capable of doing and what we are doing. That is producing fires (harm).

You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.
Maya Angelou

The Problem - Complex not Complicated
​What, What, and What?
(44 second semi-soundless video)

fire feeds on obstacles.
Marcus Aurelius

Multi-dimensional pendulum and ping pong interactions between and among individuals, groups and institutions. Materializing at the societal level as gaps (fragilities) of opposing directions in societal institutions, which are: economy, education, environment (natural), health, marriage & the family, law & order, information & media, politics, religion, technology, and maybe other. Resulting in HARM that is evident as inefficiencies, ineffectiveness, and inequities. 

Insert Examples Video with sound here

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
William Shakespeare, from the “Julius Caesar” play.

Universal Problem Solving Method (UPSM)
​(7 second soundless video)
What does not work? - What not to do!

Insert list of manifestation of the problem here

3 Future Scenarios

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra

The problem is so convoluted yet, almost 500 year ago Niccolò Machiavelli's statement remain point on.

​…and what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.
Niccolò Machiavelli

Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.
​Marcus Aurelius

2- Solution(s)

"Our practice is multidisciplinary in the sense that it seeks an optic appropriate to the problem and not to a particular scientific discipline."
​H. Igor Ansoff (Father of Strategic Management)

Almost any dictionary defines democracy as "a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives." Which is what is practiced in the USA.
To cut a long story short; both Strategic Democracy and Operational Democracy supplement each other and complement Democracy through the interactions between knowledge, action(s) and result(s) over time in society (Tamer KARTS). Its purpose is to ensure the survival, growth, and development of democracy at scale. The thrust is to improve existing practice and create exceptional futures. 

It is a paradigm for deliberate and/or emergent leadership and management of ourselves, each other, and institutions over time in society.​ ​​It is a multidisciplinary paradigm for complementing democracy with fundamentals from leadership and management; focusing on strategic management and all knowledge rather than politics and economics.  ​

​We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With socio-political or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

 The solution is reboot democracy into:

• strategic democracy to address turbulent environment,
• operational democracy to address stable environments, and 
• mixed to address any combination of the above two. 

Concurrently, apply Tamer KARTS (Knowledge and Action for Results over Time in Society) to thrust towards closing the gaps. 

Reboot Democracy
​(14 second soundless video)

So, let us reboot Democracy by integrating and/or differentiating the strategic and operational modes while balancing them, as follows:

1. ​Operational democracy tackles stable environments that contain issues, events, problems etc... Which are repetitive and experienced before; supplemented with a high state of knowledge and adequate time to respond. Such as discrimination (ability, gender, color, religion, age, income and other), drug addiction, computer privacy, unemployment, and hunger. It is a known problem and solutions either exist or could be developed.
2. Strategic democracy addresses turbulent environments that contain issues, events, problems etc... Which are novel surprises not experienced before; supplemented with low state of knowledge and time constraints. For instance, COVID19, Oil crisis and stock market collapse. It is either an unknown problem or partially known and solutions are either partial or do not exist; development of solutions is required.
3. ​Both modes are impactful and urgent whereas, the former is addressed sequentially and latter concurrently. Sometimes they overlap which requires balancing.

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The three modes engage society, which contains, individuals, groups and institutions on the on hand, and an environment that could be stable and/or turbulent, on the other. Which requires matching action in the form of: distinct strategies, distinct supporting capabilities,  distinct investments,  and distinct change processes. Therefore, deliberate and/or emergent leadership and management focusing on strategic management of ourselves, each other, and institutions over time in society while interacting with turbulence. ​Thus, an effective, efficient, and equitable future results happen by engaging all modes through matching action(s).  

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
​​​Marcus Aurelius

The Solution
Tamer KARTS, Strategic DEmocracy and Society*
​ (31 second silent video)
​* Society consists of entities and environmental turbulence

This work builds on the interactions for addressing current and future issues. The interactions are between:

1. Democracy containing three components, namely; Strategic Democracy, Operational Democracy, and a mixture of the two over time to respond to the future.
2. Tamer KARTS, which stands for Knowledge and Actions interactions for Results over Time in Society (KARTS), to produce best combination required for the response in society.

3. The Benefits ​

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
 "Life is" Poem by Mother Teresa 

Strategic Democracy aspiers for people to compete and better the practice in every way.​ It is an aggressively adventures initiative thrusting curiously, without leaving anyone behind and eliminating mediocrity; effectively, efficiently, and equitably for an exceptional future, by learning and practicing the following, in any order:

• eliminating things that do not work (exit),
• improving things that work (innovation),
• exploring future potential of things that are new (entrepreneurship), 
• applying preventive measures for things that surprise us (precaution), &
• what to do when things surprise us (preparation).

Strategic Democracy is practically applicable in a complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-ability, multicultural, multi-ethnic, multi-generational and multi-ideological turbulent environment(s).​​

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
From the book, "De Beneficiis" by Seneca

The Benefits
(20 second silent video)

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Gautama Buddha

Actionable proposetions will be provided to better the future as measured by effective, efficient and equitability outcome(s). The thrust of the undertaking is to facilitate democracy in many ways, such as:

1. If your nation is a democracy, then strategic democracy contributes to its survival, improvement, and growth and development. 
2. If your nation is not a democracy, then strategic democracy sets the stage for a future democracy.

4- Summary of Problem, Solution, and Benefits

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.​
​Marcus Aurelius

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
William Shakespeare, from the "Hamlet" play.

The Problem - Fires resulting from GAPS.

Identify GAPS.

The Solution - Learn & apply Strategic Democracy through Tamer KARTS to close the GAPS.

Close the GAPS.

The Benefits - Closing the GAPS results in Effective, Effecient, and Equitable Future.

Exceptional Future.

Strategic Democracy
is ​Intended for
​Everyone!
To look & see, perceive & understand, decide &/or act.

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5- Intended Participants​

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.​
​Marcus Aurelius

Strategic Democracy is for Everyone

The Intended Participants
(14 second silent video)

"If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Strategic Democracy is intended for everyone to participate in an undertaking framed by:

• Vision​ - "We the people", improving existing practice & creating an exceptional future.
• Mission - Helping each other look & see, perceive & understand, decide &/or act.
• Purpose - Insure the survival, growth, development, and success of Democracy.
• ​Aim - ​For everyone of "we the people" to become better in every way and have better interactions with other countries.
• ​Objective - Achieve effective, efficient, and equitable future.
• ​Goal - A gage to measure the degree of objective achievement (success/failure).
• Limitations - Resistance and/or Support to learning and practicing.
• ​Some Fundamental Questions:
  1. What can be done to better democracy?
  2. How to periodically and/or real-time, plan and implement in society over time for an exceptional future? 
• Results - contribute to people practicing with "skin in the game" and materialized "antifragility" in five categories, as follows: practical applicability, further testing, what not to do, do not know, and backup with precautionary preparation.
• Critique -  Strategic democracy addresses the future potential for survival, improvement, growth and development. It is based on leadership and management, focusing on strategic management. The core of the argument is that democracy is the best form of government yet, in the USA, it has not performed exceptionally. Therefore, strategic democracy was created to complement democracy through Tamer KARTS by leading and managing different aspects of societal institutions. ​ Appreciation and/or criticism are welcome and encouraged, hence we will be dealing with many unknowns. 

Look & see, perceive & understand, decide &/or act, by learning and applying (Tamer KARTS) Knowledge and Actions interactions for Results over Time in Society.
​Tamer Tamer Salameh

​​Strategic Democracy addresses four fundamental questions:

1. Where we are ​now? 
2. Where do we need to go?
3. How do we get there?
4. How to lead and manage the above?

Now,
go
there
to lead and manage!

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