Mamdani’s camp is tracking Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s challenges and trying to avoid repeating his missteps, according to a person close to both Mamdani’s and Johnson’s teams.
I consider assembling the right team part of the leadership position. 🤷 If there are structural problems where a leader cannot remove underperforming or undermining team members, then success is unlikely.
Aren’t council elected? I’m unfamiliar with Chicago electoralism and hiring/firing policies, but a difficult to remove person who talked one way and performed another is certainly problematic, whether it’s intentional or not. At the end of the day, in capitalism, people will fight tooth and nail to stay in a job where they are not only under qualified without hope of proper support and training for themselves, and they’re also outright miserable, because bills still need paying and homelessness and hunger are still criminalized.
I consider assembling the right team part of the leadership position. 🤷 If there are structural problems where a leader cannot remove underperforming or undermining team members, then success is unlikely.
Aren’t council elected? I’m unfamiliar with Chicago electoralism and hiring/firing policies, but a difficult to remove person who talked one way and performed another is certainly problematic, whether it’s intentional or not. At the end of the day, in capitalism, people will fight tooth and nail to stay in a job where they are not only under qualified without hope of proper support and training for themselves, and they’re also outright miserable, because bills still need paying and homelessness and hunger are still criminalized.