奥巴马的助手们称，奥巴马新势力圈人士的组成是为了克服奥巴马执政头两年出现的失误。

　　前奥巴马竞选经理大卫-普劳夫已作为新任内部事务主管重返白宫，他将负责使联络、政治外展、战略规划更有纪律性。前克林顿政府官员吉恩-斯珀林取代了萨默斯，他在此之前已承诺要更具合作性，尤其在与商界和内阁共事方面。斯珀林是一位智商很高的人士，他能与任何人相处。他将与包括奥斯坦-古尔斯比、詹森-福尔曼在内的奥巴马核心圈人士共事。更多的来自私营行业的经理将作为外部顾问加入白宫团队，大战神页游，以使白宫政策讨论更加多样化。

　　拥有政治天才声誉的戴维-阿克塞尔罗德将离开白宫，以开始运作连任选举活动。白宫新闻秘书罗伯特-吉布斯将在为奥巴马服务六年后辞职，他选择作为外部竞选咨询人士而不是一个没有明确主管事务的高级助手职位。因为向商界示好而遭到批评的贾瑞特将留任以继续改善白宫与商界的关系。白宫预计将很快提名新任新闻秘书人选。

　　但奥巴马人事调整的最大变动是提名威廉-戴利出任其新任白宫办公厅主任。戴利的父亲和哥哥都出任过芝加哥市长，他本人长期以来一直是阿克塞尔罗德和伊曼纽尔的导师。戴利很冷静，而伊曼纽尔会情绪冲动，有时候会很生硬。民主党人和首席执行官数十年来一直在就获得明智建议求助戴利。戴利坦率、有趣、精通政治。他虽然不以组织高手而闻名，但正如一位高级助手所称的那样，他是一位能够赢得华盛顿三方：媒体、商界、国会尊重的“成年人”。

　　The White House:Obama's New Inner Circle

　　To hear White House aides explain it, Barack Obama's first White House staff was assembled on the fly. "There was no time to fine-tune," says Dan Pfeiffer, Obama's communications director. "We were bolting the wings on as we took off."

　　An overhaul was overdue. Senior aides began trading memos months ago about the missteps of the first two years. The list was long: Short-term tactics often obscured strategic goals. Too many people had overlapping responsibilities. Obama, surrounded by a surplus of true believers, lacked fresh perspectives. The economic team was riven by personality conflicts and hampered by a national economic adviser, Larry Summers, who behaved more like his own advocate than an honest broker. Other advice, whether it was from Cabinet Secretaries or the business community, was stifled before it could be heard。

　　The new lineup, Obama aides say, is designed to fix all that. David Plouffe, the former campaign manager, has returned as the new internal taskmaster, charged with bringing more discipline to communications, political outreach and strategic planning. Gene Sperling, a former Clinton Administration official most recently at Treasury, won the job to replace Summers by promising to be more collaborative, particularly with business groups and the Cabinet. Sperling is a high-octane intellect who can get along with anyone, and he will find himself working with a coterie of Obama insiders, including Austan Goolsbee and Jason Furman, who have been promoted from within. More private-sector executives will come aboard soon as outside advisers in the hopes of diversifying White House policy discussions。

　　David Axelrod, whose reputation for political genius never included organization, will leave to begin working on the re-election campaign. Robert Gibbs, the press secretary, will resign after six years with Obama, choosing the job of outside campaign consultant over a senior-aide position without a clear portfolio. Valerie Jarrett, who took flak for her outreach efforts to business, will remain in place with an eye to improving frayed relations. A new press secretary is expected to be named soon。

　　But Obama's biggest change was naming Bill Daley, the son and brother of Chicago mayors and a longtime mentor to both Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel, to be his new chief of staff. Daley is matter-of-fact cool where Emanuel could be hot and, at times, heavy. Democrats and CEOs have turned to Daley for sound advice for decades; he is frank, funny and political down to his bluchers. He is not known as an organizational whiz, but he is, in the words of one senior aide, "an adult" capable of getting the respect of the Washington trifecta: the press, the business community and Congress。

　　(Read more about Obama's next chief of staff Bill Daley。)

　　Compared with the sometimes dour Axelrod, Daley will be a better stand-in on TV and with the business community from which he comes and which widely praised his appointment. "This will free up the President a little more to focus on his vision," says the senior official. "We need to elevate the President." Daley is likely to announce that he will recuse himself from some issues he worked on for his former employer, JPMorgan Chase。

　　Obama and Daley aren't strangers to friction — or how to cut it. Years ago, Daley held a fundraiser for one of Obama's opponents in the U.S. Senate primary. He had the foresight to send Obama a handwritten note telling the future President that if he won the runoff, Daley would be the first guy in his corner. When the 2008 campaign began, that was quite literally the case. And now it's official。