The last person that should be giving out Chicago political advice is this goof

Hiring Advice for Chicago from C. Kennedy

an abortion, welfare, high-tax, full-of-shit advocate
a typical kennedy, he never saw an extreme liberal cause he didn't go gaga over

imagine if you will, what would have happened to Illinois if this idiot had gotten elected governor

Published on March 20, 2019 Chris Kennedy

Over the next fourteen days, important hiring decisions will be made by millions of people.

If you’re one of them—and you probably are—I thought I’d share some guidance that I’ve developed
for myself over the last three decades.

For thirty years, I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in hiring decisions for front-line employees to board members and everything in between.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.

Nothing could be further from the truth. First impressions are the last data source you want to use in making a decision. It’s critical that you test every assumption. Dig a little deeper, ask for references, read about the individual, Google them, ask industry colleagues, and confirm, confirm, confirm. The truth is, from a distance, a thing that looks like a duck and walks like a duck can be a loon. The last thing you want to do is hire a loon.

Mirror, mirror on the wall

You don’t want to take guidance from a mirror about a hiring decision. It’s a mistake to hire clones. A diverse organization benefits from a broader point of view and healthy, internal debate. If everyone looks alike and thinks alike, mistakes occur. The more important a job, the more important the decisions. The more important the decisions, the more important the diversity of the group that makes them. Hire someone whose perspective is different—a good person, of course, but someone who offers a voice shaped by experiences that might be different than yours. And that may just be the difference you need to succeed.

I love you, you’re perfect, now change

If there are glaring issues with a hire, don’t convince yourself that you can change their behavior—they are what they are. If you’re not prepared to embrace the behavior you don’t like, then don’t make the hire.

If they’ll lie for you, they’ll lie to you

Hiring a team member who will say anything to win or claim anything to get the sale may seem like an exciting proposition as you seek top-line revenue growth, but if they will lie for you, they will absolutely lie to you—it’s just a matter of time. Don’t pretend that you can monitor every action or that your awareness of their comfort with lying gives you an advantage—it doesn’t. There is no place for liars in a modern American organization.

Integrity matters

A law professor commenting on the recent national admissions scandal and the fallout that resulted in the loss of employment for some of the participants charged with felony indictments observed that, for professionals in the service sector, their stock in trade is their reputation and their integrity. Hire people with a great reputation; hire people with integrity. If they have been living under a cloud, they will bring that cloud with them, and the last thing you want to do is have a cloud hanging over your organization.

Truth matters

In any organization, you want each member to be comfortable telling the truth, and if they’re not comfortable telling the truth, you want them to have the courage to say it anyways. If you find a job candidate who has demonstrated the willingness to speak truth to power, then that prospect should be at the top of the list. If their fidelity to the truth is powerful, they will become a powerful member of the leadership team.

P.S.

On Tuesday, April 2, voters in Chicago will make one of the most important hiring decisions they will ever make. They will hire a new mayor. That mayor will set our tax rates, impact economic expansions or contraction, and determine the quality of job candidates coming out of our public grade schools and high schools and our community colleges as well. They will determine the safety of our city and the quality of our lives. I believe the list above, time-tested and true, is as applicable to choosing among candidates in an election as it is to choosing candidates when hiring at a corporation. If you apply these standards to Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle, the only outcome must be a decision to hire Lori Lightfoot.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck

For years, Toni Preckwinkle has pretended to be a reformer. She thinks if she walks like a duck, she’ll convince people that she’s a reformer, but she is a political insider who’s much more interested in protecting the political class than serving the voters. Just ask yourself, “Did she care more about me and the taxes I paid, or about Joe Berrios?”

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Lori represents the diversity that we need in our leadership in Chicago. She has a unique sensitivity to the poor, to the marginalized, to the disrespected, to the isolated, and to those who feel alone. And yet, she also knows the potential that exists in every one of us.

I love you, you’re perfect, now change

I suppose if Toni didn’t raise the Cook County sales tax, even after she ran against it, or if she hadn’t raised the sugar tax so she could give raises to her political cronies, or if she didn’t cozy up to the property tax lawyers, maybe she’d be a good leader. But she did all of those things, and she’s not going to change. She will raise your taxes, and she won’t raise it for economic development or growth or to reinvest but instead to feather the beds of political supporters. It’s just who she is, and it’s never going to change.

If they’ll lie for you, they’ll lie to you

Democratic party operatives like Toni because she’ll do anything to advance the cause of the insiders. She’ll lie and pretend her county car wasn’t used to transport political material. She’ll look the other way as people like Berrios pack their staff with family members, unqualified to perform the jobs the tax payers are paying them to do. Sure, she’ll lie for the party, but if we hire her to run the city, she’ll lie to us, just as she did to county voters.

Integrity matters

Integrity matters, but not to Toni. She’s not worried about her reputation; all she cares about is beating the other person. She’s traded donations for jobs, she slow-walked property tax reform while taking money from property tax appeals lawyers, she’s cozied up to the very corporations she should be regulating, and she failed to stand up to other elected officials like Joe Berrios who were abusing the system and the poorest citizens among us.

Truth matters

Lori’s told the truth, right from the start of her campaign. Anyone who is willing to tell the truth, even if it risks making their goals harder to achieve, deserves our respect. Lori has mine.

Trust me when I tell you C. Kennedy didn't write this article. It was written by a his publicist.