Remembrance Day. Two minutes of silence. Mandatory or personal choice? A recent Ipsos-Reid poll suggests that a majority of Canadians believe two minutes of silence on Remembrance Day should be mandatory, imposed by law, punishable with CONSEQUENCES!
Whenever an organization starts getting "out of control", the first tool we usually turn to is Command and Control. No matter how open or enlightened we profess to be, no matter how deeply we believe in engaging people's internal motivation, we often fall back to coercion by fear; we rein people in using new rules, threats of punishment, coercion, and layers of joy-killing, productivity-killing approvals.
Remembrance Day is about freedom, and remembering those who fought for the freedoms we enjoy. Rather than imposing more rules, a better focus would be to work on engaging peoples' minds and hearts - the respectful remembrance needs to come from within. Then it means something.
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