Hillary Hires Corporate Advisor

[illinoisprogressive]

Add another consultant to the list of those advising Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton: John Kao, a corporate communications consultant who is based in San Francisco and advocates using the techniques of musical improvisation to get the creative juices flowing and leave competitors in the dust.

Senator Clinton paid Mr. Kao $70,000 to advise her during her Senate re-election campaign in 2006, but the payment did not appear in her financial filings until the end of the first quarter of this year. Howard Wolfson, a Clinton spokesman, said that Mr. Kao was continuing to advise Mrs. Clinton, without pay, in her presidential bid, on issues of innovation and how America competes in the 21st century market.

The two met in 2004 as part of a Defense Department advisory group to help the military think creatively about “transformation,” leadership and other issues.

Mr. Kao, who has taught at Harvard Business School, is the author of “Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Corporate Creativity,” in which he explains how members of a work team can adapt the principles of improvisational music to collaborate at a higher, more creative level, a process he calls “getting to cool.”

In his “transformation manifesto,” Mr. Kao suggests hiring a “chief destruction officer” instead of a “chief innovation officer.” Organizations, he says, “must ruthlessly trash outmoded obstructions to creativity,” including “a confining brand image” and “revered memories of old successes.”

Mr. Wolfson called Mr. Kao brilliant, adding: “He provides an out-of-the-box thinking that is also very grounded in the everyday world.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/

[Colobo]

1. Hillary would win some points with me if

she fired that jerk Howard Wolfson. The guy is a turn off.

Even if he was working for Obama, he would still be a turn off.

[illinoisprogressive]

3. wolfson is slime. Hillary loves that corporate stuff.

[Tellurian]

4. You've involved yourself in a bloodsport..

you do realize that, Katz? It's not all cake, cookies and fun on message boards all the time. The enemy is busy planting minefields and digging trenches of oppo research, even if it's a LIE for the unsuspecting Demo candidate to trip him/her UP-

When we are attacked, we've got to do what? RETALIATE- swiftly and effectively to neutralize the effects of a smear..You hire people to do that. Experts at what they do- protect the candidate from damage to maintain their electability at all costs!

Obama has his team standing at the ready..believe it!

[Tellurian]

2. Ramping UP the Big Guns..

EXCELLENT!

The second one today!

The first one here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3263218

[fooj]

5. Don't we ALREADY have one of these?

“chief destruction officer”

;)

[Tellurian]

6. The illprogressive provded this one..

This one is talented in other areas. Mr.John Kao is a corporate communications consultant.
To complete the offensive and defensive team if you will.

[MethuenProgressive]

7. Got anything postive to post about your guy?

I see you have an Obama image in your posts. What's your ratio of pro-Obama v. anti-Hillary posts?

[MonkeyFunk]

8. What?!

She hired somebody who's worked for corporations?!?!?!

That's it... I'm voting for someone who only hires dropouts and hobos. Kucinich, here I come!

[Tellurian]

9. Monkey business..

:rofl:

[SaveElmer]

10. LOL...

:rofl:

[Forkboy]

11. Well.he's no Mark Penn!

Here's an interview with Kao.

http://www.dialogonleadership.org/interviewKao.html

Interesting stuff...it was a good read.

This is from Part 5 of the interview;Three Core Elements of the Emerging New Model

COS: And so if you were to describe these new practices and the process around which they align themselves, what are the core elements of the emerging new model?

Element one: design

John Kao: I’ll give you three. One is design. Design is an innovation process that is not about figuring out a specification and then filling in the picture. Design is about being able to create interim understandings of what you want that you then work hard to go beyond. Specifically, it’s a process of prototyping, which is modeling or simulating your best current understandings precisely so you can have some kind of a shared set of understandings that will enable communication, especially among people with very different discipline bases. That will also allow you to break that prototype and iterate, prototype and iterate, until you get to some desired outcome which you could not have predicted in the beginning.

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Element two: theater

You have to have a way of allowing people to shift their perspective so they see why something is important and develop the commitment to pursue that goal. So if, for instance, I hand you a memo that says we’re going to have this thing called the French Revolution, and here are the five reasons, please check here if you’re interested in participating, it’s not an exciting experience. But if I take you to some revolutionary theater and I show you bad things that happened and I give you a lot of symbols and images and red colors, you’ll get very excited and you’ll want to do something dramatically different.