Latest Duncan Green Quotes from Interviews

• 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

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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

  Duncan Green

  Without You, Happenings

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s.

  Duncan Green

  Unions, Bigs, Trade

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.

  Duncan Green

  Rights, Nuts, People

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You need to actually think why that is.

  Duncan Green

  Pensamiento, Personas, Necesidades

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• You have a huge number of people who spend their time writing papers which show that migrants pay more to the country than they take out in benefits, and they say, "Why don't you approve of migration? Why don't you open up borders?" They're not able to empathize with how people feel about migration.

  Duncan Green

  Country, Writing, Numbers

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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

  Duncan Green

  People, Trying, Determined

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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

  Duncan Green

  Decision, Pressure, Makers

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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

  Duncan Green

  Russia, Decision, Acting

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

• 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

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

• 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

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• People think there's a single solution to complex problems, and the solution is often making an enemy of a group of people - pulling back and rejecting the other.

  Duncan Green

  Thinking, People, Enemy

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

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

  Duncan Green

  Matter, Phrases, March

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• 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

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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