Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Politics / Woods Cammack Denies His Campaign Sucks
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM
"I got into this campaign with a vision and an understanding of the challenges. Apple could not take on IBM by being like IBM. We cannot run this race in the same old political way."Wow! He sounds really cutting edge. Maybe Cammack's figured out a way to run a campaign without money or support.
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Apparently, Cammack is alternating churches he attends on Sundays to increase campaign contributions. His wife is teaching a class at one of them.
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WTF is a "hairy" goal?!?!?!
What does that IBM-Apple analogy mean? I thought Apple had a very small share of the PC market. Wouldn't a political campaign want to be the company that most people buy? You know, the one with the most "voters"??????
Cammack sounds a little crazy in this interview.
Told ya'll Carmack was crazy if he thought he'd be governor and I know crazy.
He brought the crazee big time at the Kitchen Cabinet this morning. All big, hairy, audacious nuttiness, with a side order of rich boy girlie-ness.
@JaStep: The phrase "big hairy audacious goal," or BHAG (bee-hag) for short, is a bit of popular bizspeak coined in the mid-90s by a couple of business school/consulting types named Collins and Porras (who later wrote the business megabook Built to Last). As they conceived it in the context of corporate strategy, a BHAG is supposed to refer to an exceedingly ambitious and long-term goal (think decades), but one concrete enough that you might be able to know when you reach it.
So from the perspective of how the term gets thrown around as biz jargon, Cammack seems to be misusing it, since his campaign (with a life of less than a year and a half max) can't really have a BHAG, nor for that matter would his administration be around long enough. Also, the goal itself is highly vague to the point of meaninglessness, at least as recounted by Humphrey in the Knoxnews piece.
Thanks, bb. Coming from a supposedly legitimate candidate for governor, a "big, hairy, audacious" anything sounds totally bizarre and inappropriate.
What a schmuck!
A big hairy campaign?!?
Hey, bay-bee, wanna see my big, hairy . . . campaign?
Is Cammack even smart enough to realize he just branded his campaign with the single, dumbest name in Tennessee political history?
