TRUMP's MEN TAKEOVER THE TOWN

President Donald Trump’s men have now completed a predictable smooth transition of power that increases global turbulence toward trade policies to focus on small business growth, immigration barriers along cultural lines and massive investments in infrastructure and military might to make America Great Again.

The rise of anti-immigration, ultra-nationalist political parties in Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom reflects the mobilisation of Menzies' post-war forgotten people. Prime Minister Theresa May says the UK will also regain control of its borders and the best possible trade deal with the EU. She didn't commit to maintaining "single market access", but she suggests that people who thought the country could keep "bits of EU membership" were missing the point that it "would be leaving".

The change to consultative celebrity leadership and collaborative corporate management lies in national acceptance of talent management in times of technological change, along with team engagement with longer term succession planning.

This sets the global scene for management and leadership redirection towards the Triple T (talent, teams and transitions) rather than the Triple A economic rationalist focus. As McCauley and Wakefield say in their article “Talent Management in the 21st Century” – to drive performance, deal with an increasingly rapid pace of change, and create sustainable success, a company must integrate and align its talent recruitment, engagement and succession planning.

A national re-alignment of development goals reflects the mood of the moment. Thousands of business leaders and managers approached by last year’s Deloite’s Global Human Capital Trends indicated that “after three years of struggling to drive employee engagement and retention, improve leadership and build a meaningful culture, executives see a need to redesign the organisation.”

Deloite’s 2016 survey of around seven thousand executives showed that more than nine out of ten rated organisational design and cultural alignment with growth objectives as their top priority and nearly half reported that their companies are either in the middle of restructuring (39%) or planning one (16%)

Alibaba’s executive Chairman Jack Ma asked whether Trump expressed a different view about working with China, said “I think the President-elect is very smart and open-minded and listens. So I tell him my ideas about how to improve trade especially supporting small business, cross board trading and business.”

Trump, May and in Australia, increasingly Bill Shorten, will heed the call from regional communities that feel victimised by the reconstruction of global markets and widening differences between the under-educated, older male minority and the socially mobile younger expectation driven and mobile majorities. The new focus will be on small business networking, trade union reconstruction and social media consolidation.

Obama White House aides make the case that despite their differences, Trump’s team have collaborated with the outgoing White House team to on get the new administration up to speed to generate jobs, growth and restoration of national “greatness” through flexible, innovative and entrepreneurial development.

”In his 100-day action plan to Make America Great Again”—Trump said that he would work with Congress to pass the Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act, which aims to "grow the economy by 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief and lifting the restrictions on American energy."

Speaking at Pearl Harbour, Obama said “even when hatred burns hottest, even when the tug of tribalism is at its most primal, we must resist the urge to turn inward. We must resist the urge to demonise those who are different.”

Obama chief of staff Denis McDonough has been in regular touch with incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus. Outgoing and incoming national security advisers Susan Rice and Michael Flynn have continued to be engaged, and other senior aides throughout the White House have been in touch with their transition counterparts, both White House and transition aides confirm.

The President –elect has now held his post-election press conference and has told the media "Our staffs have been getting along very well, and I'm getting along very well with him, other than a couple of statements that I responded to and we talked about it and smiled about it and nobody is ever going to know because we are never going to be going against each other."

Trump’s new corporate cabinet will press for rapid and critical changes back to more traditional America First programs that give the disenfranchised industrial workforce a sense that jobs will cease to run away across borders, corporations will be forced to pay a share of their revenue with infrastructure hungry communities and health and employment policies dramatically shifted to get better value for taxpayer dollars.

On November 21, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump released a video message summarising priorities for his administration in its first 100 days:

On trade, I am going to issue our notification of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a potential disaster for our country. Instead, we will negotiate fair, bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back onto American shores.

On energy, I will cancel job-killing restrictions on the production of American energy – including shale energy and clean coal – creating many millions of high-paying jobs. That’s what we want, that’s what we’ve been waiting for.

On regulation, I will formulate a rule which says that for every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated, it’s so important.

On national security, I will ask the Department of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop a comprehensive plan to protect America’s vital infrastructure from cyber-attacks, and all other form of attacks.

On immigration, I will direct the Department of Labor to investigate all abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker. “

Trump has chosen a team of senior men ( and a couple of executive women) to lead this transformation. It is interesting to consider the background of the men who are Cabinet nominees-

Rex Tillerson - Secretary of State - CEO of Exxon

James Mattis - Secretary of Defence - Former Marine General & Commander

Steven Mnuchin -Secretary of Treasury - Former Goldman Sachs Partner

Jeff Sessions - Attorney General -US Senator for Alabama

John Kelly - Secretary of Homeland Security -Retired Marine General

Andrew Puzder - Secretary of Labor -CEO CKE Restaurants Inc

Rick Perry - Secretary of Energy - Former Texas Governor

Ryan Zinke - Secretary of Interior -Former Navy Seal and US Representative

Ben Carson- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development -Former Director of Paediatric Surgery (and candidate for President against Donald Trump)

Wilbur Ross - Secretary of Commerce - Former banker and investor

Tom Price - Secretary of Health and Human Services - US Representative Georgia

and then there are the women joining the Cabinet:

Betsy DeVos - Secretary of Education - Republican donor & charter school advocate

Elaine Chao - Secretary of Transportation -Former Labor Secretary, as well as

Nikki Haley -U.S. Ambassador to the UN -Governor of South Carolina

So rather than see the rise of anti-establishment parties, Trump and Brexit as failures of the pollsters to reflect the changing national mood, it may be more appropriate to recognise these changes as the beginning of the end of international focus and as a challenging form of succession to the Democrat administration.

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