WHO'S ON YOUR TRANSITION TEAM?

November 4th was the day of voting, counting and analyzing the data, but the change has been occurring gradually for years.  



Election day was a snapshot/freeze frame of a living breathing transformation in progress. 



Our world has been changing, our demographics have been changing, the economy has been changing and our careers and industries have been changing. 



And it's on certain days and at certain times that we stop and register a choice, count the votes, articulate what's changed.

INTERNAL/EXTERNAL SHIFTS



The political landscape has changed. The world's economic fortunes are shifting. 



One of the many things that I believe Barack Obama's leadership will bring to Washington and the world is a new understanding of the nature of teamwork and collaboration in getting things done and making changes in our world and projects.



-How will we help improve our global economy and our personal economy?



-How will we change our actions and attitudes towards global warming and our reliance on oil?



-How will we reinvent our careers and professional lives when the skills and jobs and money streams that once made us a good living are changing, shifting or outright disappearing?



THE BIG CHANGE



The big answer, and the big shift, is that we'll be challenged to do it collectively: in teams, in partnership and in collaboration.



We're being challenged to solve problems that we've never faced before which will require answers and approaches to problem solving that we've never used before.



But now, working together with other people, brainstorming solutions, listening and being inspired by other ways of looking at and approaching problems are likely to be the best and perhaps only way out.