Builders, creators, makers. We understand what we have before us. The greatest renovation of our lifetimes.
Builders are all too familiar with the hard work of intelligent disruption. Renovations are not just a business, but a framework for energized, productive lives. New appliances. Updated systems. Like Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma, Ev’rythin’s up to date in Kansas City. And that’s a good thing.
Logically, keeping communities up to date signals to residents that the community matters—that they matter. Deferred maintenance is but the first step of a decline that impacts residents’ health, productivity and well-being, not to mention the life of the asset, valuation and cap ex.
While we don’t always love disruption, humans (and banks and renters) like up to date. All else is merely tolerated.
Such refreshes are so profound that they even make for good entertainment. Like an HGTV reno show, deferred maintenance, bad design, poor finishing choices, dysfunctional lifestyles vanish within an hour.
Today, we are witnessing the greatest renovation of our time, that of our government. We are witnessing an outdated, rusted out punchline in the first stages of conversion.
Disruption is rarely easy. But the promise of up to date is exuberating.
Winning is a good thing. Whining is merely tolerated.
Most of us understand the blood, sweat and toil of owning and operating businesses and, frankly, many of our outdated agencies have been merely tolerated for far too long.
American business has had no choice but to live in Realsville. As our federal agencies finally step through the portal of time, bringing process, system and common sense into focus, this can only result in prosperity as a result of the realignment of business with government.
I can hardly wait until we’re humming, Ev’rythin’s up to date in America.
