Exposing, Defeating and Maybe Using the Delphi Technique in Meetings
Have you ever attended a public meeting that is supposed to gather public opinion on some major project or government sponsored plan and left the meeting feeling unheard and confused? If so, you may have been a victim of the Delphi Technique. The Delphi Technique, as the attached document explains, "is a manipulative method used by Governments, Organizations and Unions to cause a 'pre-selected outcome' at a meeting, event, or function. It is based upon the Hegelian Dialectic of creating one's own opposition in order to manipulate that opposition to a unified consensus.
Once you understand the tactic, you can cooperate with others to defeat it. If you are running the meeting, you may even be able to use it to your advantage.
The document is available here at Freedom-school.com. The best way to defeat the Delphi Technique is to give them this document and form a plan, in private, before the meeting.
Perhaps a better way to understand the Delphi Technique is to watch it in action in this video.
More on the Hegel’s theory of the dialectic can be found on ChristianObserver.net
Some additional suggestions on defeating the Delphi Technique.
1, Get the meeting agenda in advance.
2. Try to get information on the facilitators, who they work for and how they or their organization stands to benefit from any proposal.
3. Prepare all meeting participants with as much information as possible and who will be the lead on each agenda item.
4, If the agenda is not available, have the meeting attendees connected to some people who can do quick research as the meeting evolves. Conflict of interests should be exposed during the meeting. If conflicts are suppressed, have other participants request that the question be answered immediately.
5, If an answer to any question is put off with a promise to answer it later, ask if the answer be publicly answered as a addendum to the official published minutes and also answered publically at the next meeting.
4. Use the "Diamond Tactic" described in the attached document.
5, Get to the meeting early, claim your seats and do not get together while at or near the meeting.
