Representative bodies & new ideas
30/11/2006
As I have indicated on many occasions there is a fundamental contradiction between representative bodies, such as democracies and even the U.N., and new ideas. Representative bodies are there to represent and reflect the current thinking of those who are represented. By definition, a new idea is new and is not current thinking.
For these reasons it is not the duty or the habit or the ability of representative bodies to put forward new ideas. In addition new ideas are a high risk because there is no way of knowing in advance how the new idea will be received by those who are represented. So the design of representative bodies makes it impossible for them to put forward new ideas.
Edward de Bono
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