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Point of Order

 NOTES ON PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE

 

If we cannot reconcile all opinions, let us endeavour to unite all hearts.

 

Point of Order is the fifth module in this proposed study corresponding to the fifth course listed in the CDA Standard Training Curricula. The title suggests an assembly or conference meeting scenario, where a matter is raised concerning the rules of parliamentary procedure - A point of order may be raised if the rules appear to have been broken... The motion is sometimes erroneously used to ask a question of information...(Wikipedia) However, Point of Order is seldom questioned  when raised by the host announcing “Dinner is ready…baka lumamig pa ang sabaw!” This must be what The Co-op Idea is all about. In the words of Pablo Picasso, “An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought” (Brainy Quote, www.brainyquote.com). Through the years, as the Co-op advocates bull-headedly elaborated, ‘cooperate or perish’, the issue became undebatable.

 

Other famous personalities share the same idea  -​

 

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke (Will Rogers)... I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love (Charlie Sheen)... Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate (Will Rogers)... Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn (Charlie Sheen)... Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction (Will Rogers)... The hidden harmony is better than the obvious (Pablo Picasso)... ​

 

Hence, Point of Order, the fifth strategic point of awareness for effective Co-operative leadership.