Era of Collaboration

 
The US election is just two weeks away. While the largest percentage of Americans is impassioned over this election with deep feelings for their preferred set of leaders I think it largely does not matter which set wins! Why?  Read on…

We are entering an era of collaboration leaving the era of competition behind us and both sets of leaders are exceeding good at collaboration. This may surprise you as you think of all the fighting going on, of all the lipstick being slathered on the lips of pit bulls, and on and on it goes. Well we must stand back from campaign rhetoric and reflect on the actual track records and skills of the four leaders themselves.

Barack Obama is ridiculed for his role as a community organizer as if it is a job of little importance yet ask what does a community organizer really do and really accomplish. The answer is he brings very desperate groups together, people from all walks of life, people who have deep emotional and often conflicting views of each other, people who have not and cannot work together. A community organizer must have the facilitation skills and the leadership skills to cook this tumultuous brew into a fine bouillabaisse. One in which everyone can live and enjoy the resulting taste. Barack Obama has shown himself as gifted in these bringing people together skills which he brought into his legislative experiences both at the State and at the National level.

John McCain is depicted as a rant and rave political right wingnut who will take drastic and inappropriate action. A leader who will force feed the nation. His record in Congress shows the opposite he has brought divergent groups together and formed coalitions to make things work for everyone. He is seen often with his close friend and colleague Joe Lieberman one of the most liberal and most religious conservative members of Congress. His Vietnam experience is heralded and admired by all Americans and non Americans as well. He is a true national hero. Again we must look more deeply at his experience. In prison as a war criminal he learned dimensions of the collaboration process that most people rarely are challenged by and he came through five grueling years having not collaborated with the enemy but having learned how to ingeniously collaborate with his colleagues in prison.

The two presidents in waiting Joe Biden and Sarah Palin are both well experienced and accomplished collaborators. Just look at how well they are collaborating with their bosses. Binden’s Senate experience shows his strong and well exercised collaboration skills. Palin’s major and governor roles show she has brought people to the table and to resolution many many times.

My conclusion:  What the country needs most in the coming years is collaboration to bring all Americans together to work together to collaborate together to create a new economic and political construct for our conjoint success. Also America needs to extend its collaboration platform globally. We have exported so much good and so much bad across this planet on our own with relatively little collaboration we should and I believe this to be true regardless of either set of leaders winning. We Americans collaboratively led will foster a world collaboration launching us into the Era of Collaboration.

NOTE:  For a look at the dark side of each candidate
and for a view from far away see below.

Obama the Darkside

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4]

McCain the darkside

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

Election in Philippines

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/01/1464066.aspx

L. Allan Austin

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