Asking questions

I was thinking that in a democracy, the greatest attribute of the system is the right to ask questions and the duty of persons in charge to answer these questions in public. This does not apply just to political systems, but also management systems. In the same way that democracy in political systems allow for flow of ideas and transparency, democracy in management can result in a healthy exchange of ideas and therefore reaping of the 'wisdom of crowds'.

And it is my view that to determine how democratic an organisation is, and therefore how healthy its base of diverse ideas is, can be seen from how it encourages questions.

It is not merely the form eg of having organised a forum where there is a Q&A component (but nobody asks any questions) but the climate, culture and strategy of encouraging questions and hence benefitting from it.