Posted on 08/18/2016 8:20:11 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Good leaders recognize when changing circumstances call for action
I always find it amusing when the political media try to analyze why changes are made to a candidate’s campaign structure. The storylines are always predictable: It’s a “shakeup” in response to “bad poll numbers” or “internal strife” or something along those lines, helpfully explained by people who have never had leadership positions in their lives.
So when Donald Trump made changes to his campaign’s leadership structure this past week, you could easily guess that it would be reported in that exact manner.
That was actually a VERY good read. Thanks.
I somewhat doubt these changes would have taken place had things been sailing along smoothly. This is simply to keep the faithful.....well faithful instead of disheartened.
I think the Conway move should help. If nothing else it will help him to target areas where a difference can be made. I’m not a Trump fan, but I find it amazing that the same people in the media who are so critical of this move are the ones who reflexively use the John Maynard Keynes quote “When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do?” Changing strategy, management, resource deployment in the face of a highly time constrained objective that is showing different signals is not desperation per se, it’s just saying that you are continuing to play the game, the dynamic game before you. Nothing wrong with that.
Careful, you’re falling for the narrative.
Falling for the narrative usually happens during moments of mental weakness. We all get those moments, to some extent, now and again.
The answer is to look past the rhetoric. Real events have no connection to what you hear on CNN and Fox.
Just heard an NPR (yes I know) interview with one of Trumps campaign staffers. They just can’t let them speak. The interview is like this...
Q. “But you’re bringing someone from the racist Breitbart, does this mean Trump plans to keep being racist?”
A. “No that’s not what I said it is an individual from Breitbart, not the organization.”
Q. Yeah but Breitbart called Kristol a renegade Jew and they are divisive racists at Breitbart. Does this mean Trump will still be a racist?”
A. “No, that’s not what I said. We are bringing in new people to work for Trump.”
Q. “We look forward to your racist campaign, that’s all the time we have.”
Lewandowski was good to to get Trump out there, bigger than life and attract a following. Manafort was brought in and good for locking down the nomination. Now, Trump is looking at his messaging for the general election and is acting accordingly. The tasks have evolved as the timing and environment have.
In June, "Kunoor Ojha is the Clinton campaign's first major hire from the Sanders campaign."
In July, "Carter is the most senior Sanders staffer to join the Clinton campaign yet announced."
Or this, " Hillary Clinton's campaign is bringing on Gregory Bell, who is leaving the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he served as director of speechwriting for HUD Secretary Julian Castro" [What, her own speechwriters weren't good enough?]
I was going to comment but you completely nailed it. Great timeline!
Up until Hannity comes on, and to an extent O’Reilly who is pretty fair, from the morning until late afternoon FOX is nothing but declaring that Hillary has already won and the election is over and a landslide for Clinton, repeating the same 2 week old polls that Hillary has won by double digits and all the battleground states, constantly introducing us to the wonderful and popular third party candidates who are nothing but operatives of Jeb Bush Republican establishmebt and are all part of the “Never Trump” elect Hillary for Amnesty cheap labor agenda, almost every “news item” trying to weaken the moral of the majority of the Republican base, constantly the morning to late afternoun FOX “anchors” asking “can and will Trump shift his campaign to general election mode” meaning they want his to never criticize Hillary and act like Bob Dole and essentially concede defeat...
... in other words, these are the Jeh Bush cheap labor Republican establishment crowd who the Republican base rejected and so they want and will do everything they can to ser Trump lose and Hillrry win so they can say “I told you so, you should have voted for Jeb Bush” but they will be happy with Hillary because she will give amnesty to 40 million illegal aliens.
Trump has gotten where he is in The World O’ Business by surrounding himself with WINNERS and people that are extremely good at their jobs.
Everyone on his team so far, from his first days in, up until these changes, has played a valuable part in his success. I think they did a perfect end-run around the media on the trumped-up (sic) Manafort ‘scandal.’ LOL! Dorks.
Trump is no dummy, no matter WHAT the Enemy Media force feeds you 24/7.
Sounds about right Mr. Cain and I have never been a CEO.
It would be gravy if Trump had maintained his post-convention lead, but that was unrealistic. Things unfolded as most expected, Trump bounce followed by Clinton bounce, now back to earth.
Do you think Team Trump is in Panic City over statistically tied polls?
Thanks!
Enough of political hacks and professional socialist ideologues guesstimating the "why's" of a CEO's reasons for making adjustments to strategy or actions on an ongoing basis in order to achieve goals!!!
Of course, even honest pundits and politicians in the usual political mode have trouble with that. Why???? Because they've never had a clue as to why businesses succeed or fail, and they have no government model for evaluating such a phenomenon.
Cain "gets it," and even the "progressive" ideologues like Bloomberg understand: they're just too involved in their own "turf" wars to be honest.
I saw this just this morning...I was waiting for a contractor and flipped through the channels and unfortunately made the decision to land on Fox. Some snarky hack was on saying, ‘well, Trump could make a comeback but he’s down substantially in almost all polls’ as if the last week didn’t happen. I felt like I was watching the same interview from two weeks ago....because I was...because the script doesn’t change for these bozos.
“A fool rarely changes their mind....a wise man often does.”
Trump is a wise man.
Actually, as a CEO myself (of my own company) this guy is spot on. As a company grows and changes, your management needs change. Also, Trump is very hands on CEO (again like myself) and needs people who are comfortable with that style (many are not).
BTW, how many years as an executive officer do you have under your belt Joe? Honest question are you are an employee or an employer (yes it matters)?
Think of how much he’s ahead if they say it’s tied. I bleed #MAGA and I am not going to get my cars keyed or windows broken with a bumper sticker or yard signs. The massive Trump support on self serve or internet polls indicates there’s a sizeable number, similarly situated.
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