Shared Decision Making Quotes

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

As a husband, I'm a true partner. I don't believe one person should have dominance over another.

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an interest opposed to the rights of the third. Will the latter be secure? The prudence of every man would shun the danger. The rules & forms of justice suppose & guard against it. Will two thousand in a like situation be less likely to encroach on the rights of one thousand?

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

In order to get past disagreements, you just can't have one person with power decide. In other words, so just because I'm a boss, it would be terrible if I then said, "Okay, we're gonna go do this." That's why, after that thoughtful disagreement, there has to be a process of an idea meritocracy. That means okay, now you have to vote, not that the decision resides with power. And then you vote and move beyond it.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.

Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.

If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.

Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.

My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.