Having a bad day?

Bad day you say?  Two words:  Alison Krauss.  OK two more:   Diana Krall.  Done.  Harmony.  Peace. Collaboration.  Frustration exits your body and weaves its way into the early evening sunset.  The gentle art of possibility begins to surface once again.  Why do we have bad days?  History is a conflict between US and THEM.  Nations, political parties (yuck), religion, labor verses ownership/management drive the most intimate realms of our lives.  And now, a full decade plus of Company vs. Supplier.  We all live & enjoy a brand new generation of business thinking that gave birth to a new titlewave of friction called "outsource".   Growing up at Ross Rivercamps,  I would have thought this referenced some form of exclusive outdoor plumbing.  No that's not quite what this glorious business "strategy" references.  It's a term that came of age during the internet gold rush of the nineties and really began to impact companies at the turn of the 21st Century.  Please cue the Allison Krauss music...  What framework could possibly transform & embrace this notion of "outsource" (across an entire value-chain) and TRANSFORM business and vendor relationships?  How does one interweave multiple companies and disciplines and constituents across ONE company P&L statement and  platform?  One program, one story, one resource, & one company terrirtory?  How can we improve/refine a process to take us from an entrenched posture of hostility and turf war to one of partner enthusiasm, step-change, results and deep regard?   Well, it's gonna take a strong conviction of WE.  The practice and alchemy of WE.  We the company.  We the division and results.  WE the suppliers and partners working together as ONE.  Without TRUST, you can forget this notion of entering any WE relationship - let alone one this complex and void of personal achievement & emotion.  THIS outsource supplier generation asks you and all of us to trust the evolution of WE.  After all, YOU set the damn thing in motion - to serve others (shareholders) over the long WE line.  What happens now, is not in your control (that's the real difficult part) but it springs from the WE itself.  Now, enough with Allison Krauss, it's time for Diana Krall, and the best part of everyday...