Let The Synergies Begin

Hip Hip Hooray! Let's here it for our new president, Barack Obama, and his inaugural speech. It was: Brilliant.

For starters, I liked the fact that it wasn't over-engineered. Sure, it had (and needed) an inspirational and impactful style, tone and content.

He shoots; he scores!

For me, and hopefully most of us, it wasn't so much of a "speech," as it was a "mandate." A humanistic, even-tempered, balanced, matter-of-fact, business-like, action-oriented mandate.

And we need it. Do we ever.

To paraphrase our new president, and for that matter, to codify how I think most of us feel already - the basis for our national (let alone global) mandate is:

SYNERGIES.

Its time to "synergize" realism with idealism; vision with action; faith with accountability; young with old; religion with religion; work with play; laughter with focus; data with intuition; business with purpose; specifics with anecdotes; taste with substance; strategy with execution; trust with verification; inspiration with sensibility; individualism with collectivism; country with country; heart with brain; aspirations with reality. (You get it?)

Now, do to space and timing, I'm going to stop there. But as you can see, the list goes on, doesn't it? In fact, if you have the time, why don't you have some fun with this, and make up some of your own tag-team synergies. (On behalf of my kids, they suggested cold milk with warm cookies; I like that one too.)

Ultimately, we do all of this synergy, synergistically - in hopes of living happy, healthy, compassionate, economically-sound, faith-based, prosperous, loving, balanced, family-oriented lives. That's the purpose of our collective mandate.

Synergies Are Good.