Important Information

Smart Question 00005:

    • What’s important information?

TAP Response 00005:

    • TAP defines it as info that is used to establish belief and to make important life decisions.

Smart Question 00006:

    • Is it more important than all other forms of info?

TAP Response 00006:

    • Not necessarily. But TAP believes it needs to be separated from all the other types of information. Generated, handled and communicated very differently than all the other forms. Handled with a little more seriousness.

Smart Question 00007:

    • Is important info fact based info?

TAP Response 00007:

    • NOT necessarily. TAP is more interested in what exists within the minds of people than what is fact vs. fiction or correct vs. wrong or good vs. bad. TAP simply wants everyone to better understand what people really think and believe. For the accurate communication of this type of information, TAP believes, is as important as fact and non-fiction.

Smart Question 00008:

    • Who’s to say what’s important or not?

TAP Response 00008:

    • The great thing about TAP is it establishes NO authority figure, committee, institution, government, group, leadership team, etc. Importance is established within the individual mind or within the group voice of any group that emerges. TAP, not only establishes importance this way, but also has all TAPPERS and TAP groups prioritizing everything thing of importance - done so with relative ranking of all the possibility. So given any clear and concise context, minds find better understanding of importance by knowing what’s more important and in a precise ordering of importance. Of course, every mind and every group will have differences, but with TAP - it’s more about focusing on the agreement that exists.

Smart Question 00009:

    • What’s this I hear about TAP greatly improving the approach to handling agreement and disagreement?

TAP Response 00009:

    • Better understanding of important information is actually the second step in the improvement process. The first step is creating better important info. A big piece of the TAP solution is an innovation in thinking about and handling agreement and disagreement. TAP establishes a new form of continuum that places agreement on both ends of the spectrum and disagreement in between the two different forms of agreement. On one end is positive agreement. One the other end is negative agreement. Negative agreement are those things that the group agrees are the worst possibility for fulfilling the requirement of the case. Whereas positive agreement are those things the group feel are the best possibility for fulfilling the intent of the case. Disagreement is the possibility that lies in the middle of the spectrum - as there’s no clear directive by the group on which end the possibility items should be placed. TAP recommends groups focus understanding the two ends and avoid debating what’s in the middle. But always focus on next steps with only the positive agreement items.