OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE

According to the records released by the University of Illinois, After Walter Annenberg’s foundation offered several hundred million dollars to American public schools in the mid-’90s, William Ayers applied for $50 million for Chicago. The purpose of his application was to secure funds to “raise political consciousness” in Chicago’s public schools. After he won the grant, Ayers’s group chose Barack Obama to distribute the money. Between 1995 and 1999, Obama distributed the $50 million and raised another $60 million from other civic groups to augment it. In doing so, he was following Ayers’s admonition to grant the funds to “external” organizations, like American Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) to pair with schools and conduct programs to radicalize the students and politicize them. Reading, math and science achievement tests counted for little in the CAC grants, but the school’s success in preaching a radical political agenda determined how much money they got.

EMPLOYMENT DECISION

I own a small business. Things are not going very good lately, in fact things are very bad, sales are down, the competition is beating me to the ground and I can barely afford to pay my employee’s. A couple of years back some hooligans burnt down one of the building structures, while construction is underway the area we are in is not the best climate for the company to begin with and I fear further damage to other parts of the building.

The CEO of the company, while doing is best to sort things out and get things back on track has finally had it and decided to hand in his resignation. To be honest I am rather pleased as I was getting a little more then frustrated with him and would of stayed on I would of probably ended up firing him myself.

Looking for someone to take his place after months of intense searching I am now down to two finalists.

The first one is a bright young man with a great personality he’s energetic, articulate and has many ideas and visions of how to take my company forward. He promises me the world if I hire him and has committed to take the company out of the red by the time the contract (which is 4 years) expires.
His resume? Well not much he worked at another firm for 2 years (getting that job by assuring all other applicants were disqualified for technical reasons). After that he has – his current - for a further 2 years not doing much there either and for the past two years has been seeking the position at my firm. He has never really worked in the industry and doesn’t really have the experience to carry the weight of my problems. But he charisma.

The other guy is a veteran who has worked in the industry of my business for over 20 years. He understands the challenges and has dealt with many of the kind in his previous position. Sometimes succeeding, sometimes not. All in all his successes have out numbered his failures. He realizes that the problem I am dealing with has to do mostly by the bickering and miss-trust of the competitors and believes that by bringing all of us together we can all succeed in our own way without having to bring down each other (He has done so successfully before). As a law enforcement officer prior to his previous employment he has a vision of how to deal with the hooligans in the area.
The downside? He’s an older guy, not so charismatic and not as well spoken as the first applicant. Plus he is kind of friendly to my current outgoing CEO and belongs to the same heritage club as he.

Which do I hire?