Day: 26 February 2020

Don’t shoot from the hip

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President Carter’s Chief of Staff, Hamilton Jordon, was infamous for shooting from the hip. It harmed the Carter Presidency. Early on in Brussels, I learned never to shoot from the hip. I spent months re-launching a report for a client that had been shot down by the Commission. It was politically dead on arrival. The … Read more

21 things to do when you know a proposal is coming.

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  Last week I learned the Commission is going to re-open a sacred cow piece of legislation. Here is a checklist on what I would advise anyone to do when they know their political, policy or regulatory world is going to be thrown up in the air. Get ready. Denial is not a strategy. Mirror … Read more