I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
A series of posts on good practice in lobbying and campaigning
What’s the first thing you should do when the Commission has published a proposal? It’s not to have many internal meetings to anguish about the proposal or give a summary of the proposal in a very long ppt 50 + times. Instead, I do something dull and radical. I print a copy of the Impact Assessment, … Read more
If you are a lobbyist, what superpower would make your job easier and make you 1000x more effective? For me, it is the superpower to get into the minds of your audience and see the world they do as they do, and be able to reformulate what you were going to say so that it … Read more
A lot of time is spent on messaging sessions to discover winning ideas. It is a good way to start to illicit public policy and policy ideas that will help you win. But, it is just the start of a process that will lead to the progressive incremental elimination of the first tranche of ideas … Read more
I’ve just read Kevin Kelly’s ‘Excellent Advice for Living’. He was interviewed on a Farnham Street Podcast. This is a take on his advice from a perspective of a lobbyist. None of this is original. They are just things that I would find useful as a young campaigner and lobbyist. 1-202 was the first draft. … Read more