I am currently working on developing a sense of what bonds people together. At the basic level, we have the strongest bonds with family and friends. Friends have different depth level profiles - there are the inner circle, the share and occaisonal dinner level, the go out on weekend outings together friends, and the at least one good deep conversation type. The depth of a friendship might be judged by how well you can ask questions about the status of the family. Certainly, common outside interests are necessary for good friendships.
When you have personal relationships, you leave yourself open to disappointment, when the other persons cannot keep up with personal standards of ethics and morality. When public and personal lives cross, then there are some distinctly sticky ethical issues. If you live your occupation, as I do, outlookers see motives as self-serving. They are - the better I do as a consultant, the more successful I will be in accomplishing my work goals. But my measure of success is non-monetary; I measure success based on on-the-ground improvement in the approach toward natural resource extraction.
Our society must stop charging blindly into the future. However, the precautionary principle approach offered from some quarters is economically devastating - it sways the pendulum back to 'no effective management criteria' and penalizes attempts at innovation. Management criteria must include reality based data - collected without bias - that forms the basis for asking 'is this better?'. Currently, we reduce information to quantitative measures that demonstrate progress, as defined in terms of those measures. We need to define some new metrix - ancillary units of activity that provide support for resolution of the hypothesis - a means that tell us that we are in fact addressing the right questions.
More on this topic in a later post -
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