Whats Happening Now in Transition from Governor Carper to Governor Minner?
One of the things I am finding out–and I’ve been through four transitions (I’ve been in state government a long time)–is that this transition is very different from any that we have gone through. You don’t think when you transition from one governor to another from the same party that you are going to go through a complete turnover in the leadership of organizations. We really haven’t in the past. But we did this time. That effect is being felt as we try to maintain momentum around those things we thought were working in the prior administration. Transitions take a long time. They don’t happen in just the first 100 days. Because your secretaries get appointed, then they appoint division directors or agency heads, who appoint others, and you have a series of changes, a trickle down effect. So it takes a long time to put it all in place. The learning curve that the new team had takes a while. It’s funny, I understood this before, but I understand it now in a very practical way, as we t
