What the U.S. Government Shut Down Teaches Us About Organizational Corruption
What the U.S. Government Shut Down Teaches us about Organizational Corruption
Brian Pinkowski
Posted with images on "How to Fight Corruption" http://brianpinkowski.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/what-the-u-s-government-shutdown-teaches-us-about-organizational-corruption/
The 2013 U.S. Government shut down demonstrates the powerful and destructive effects of conflicts of interest on groups, nations, and the global community. Notwithstanding press releases to the contrary, it is fairly clear that the repeated refusal to come to agreement on national policy over the last few decades is strongly linked to the interests of Democrats and Republicans to establish favorable positions to benefit their respective organizations for the coming elections.
By putting those interests ahead of the survival of the communities they represent, and society at large, they have corrupted the very goals and purposes of the U.S. Constitution.
Beyond the serious impacts of these failures, there are important lessons for any organization about the impacts of conflicts of interest on group purpose.
(2 Images on Conflicts of interest)
I discuss the corruption of groups and society in What is Anticorruption? and in New Tools in the Fight Against Corruption.
Groups are identified by 5 primary characteristics.
Identity
Purpose
Ability to carry out Group Purpose
Intent to Survive into the Future
Ability to defend itself.
All groups, whether they are the U.S. Government, Rotary Clubs, sports teams, corporations, or Al Qaeda operate with these same basic characteristics.
From a group perspective, the purpose of the U.S. Government is set out in the Preamble to the Constitution, which is widely taught in U.S. schools.
“We the people, people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain
Brian Pinkowski
Posted with images on "How to Fight Corruption" http://brianpinkowski.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/what-the-u-s-government-shutdown-teaches-us-about-organizational-corruption/
The 2013 U.S. Government shut down demonstrates the powerful and destructive effects of conflicts of interest on groups, nations, and the global community. Notwithstanding press releases to the contrary, it is fairly clear that the repeated refusal to come to agreement on national policy over the last few decades is strongly linked to the interests of Democrats and Republicans to establish favorable positions to benefit their respective organizations for the coming elections.
By putting those interests ahead of the survival of the communities they represent, and society at large, they have corrupted the very goals and purposes of the U.S. Constitution.
Beyond the serious impacts of these failures, there are important lessons for any organization about the impacts of conflicts of interest on group purpose.
(2 Images on Conflicts of interest)
I discuss the corruption of groups and society in What is Anticorruption? and in New Tools in the Fight Against Corruption.
Groups are identified by 5 primary characteristics.
Identity
Purpose
Ability to carry out Group Purpose
Intent to Survive into the Future
Ability to defend itself.
All groups, whether they are the U.S. Government, Rotary Clubs, sports teams, corporations, or Al Qaeda operate with these same basic characteristics.
From a group perspective, the purpose of the U.S. Government is set out in the Preamble to the Constitution, which is widely taught in U.S. schools.
“We the people, people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain