问候，德州2021十大正规彩票app经纪人®…
3月6日, your Strategic Planning Committee, 高层领导团队, and key staff wrapped up months of preliminary research and two days of intense on-site 规划 for the future of our profession, 该协会, 它的成员, 以及他们所服务的消费者. 在我们从奥斯汀回家的路上, 我们知道COVID-19即将到来, but none of us could have imagined what would ultimately unfold. Completion of the plan almost immediately gave way to urgent needs for relocating staff in compliance with shelter-in-place orders, communications with elected officials affirming the essential status of real estate services, creation of forms and business resources to aid in the safe delivery of those services, and formulating alternative ways to communicate and conduct the business of our association. 就在这周, we were able to take a breath and revisit the preliminary strategic plan, assuming much of it might need to be scrapped.
那是我突然想到的. The Oxford Dictionary defines normal as average or typical. Does anybody remember a time when our profession was normal, average, or typical? There is no “new normal,” because there was never a normal. Normal doesn’t describe our clients, transactions, markets, or members—and it never has.
一百年前的今年, we were founded fresh out of a deadly flu pandemic, and since then we’ve been periodically disrupted by depressions, 经济衰退, 飓风, 龙卷风, 干旱, 洪水, 火灾, 还有“可怕的”技术. Disruption is the only thing that is normal for us. 我们是回转的专家, 规划, 重定向, 谈判, 妥协, and creating opportunity in the face of challenges. Will that strategic plan draft we created just a few short weeks ago need to be revised? 也许吧，但只是一点点. The strategic plans created by visionary past leaders prepared us well for today, 即使是明天, because they presumed disruption itself as normal. Ours must position us politically, 专业, and fiscally for the inevitable disruptions beyond tomorrow, and we knew that when it was conceived. 干得好，团队!