Good Practice

I’ve just spent too many hours trying to produce a good briefing for a political decision maker. It is taxing on the brain. It helps if you are working from material that does not need a post-doc from MIT to understand. You need to have a clear ‘ask’. It need to be clear for the … Read more

Trust is the gel that binds effective law and policy-making. It manifests itself in a simple operational rule that “your word is your bond”. If you give an undertaking to take a position or a voting line, you don’t back down from it. The idea of keeping your word is ancient. It is mentioned in … Read more

What can a new commissioner do on day 1 One of the big challenges a new Commissioner faces is bring their DG under control. They’ll  need to make sure that the DG works to deliver on the new Commission’s mandate. It won’t be easy.  Officials have spent the last 5 years being instructed to push … Read more

In the quest for narrow expertise, many lobbyists have lost the ability to scramble out of their deep policy silo. Too many are unable to connect the policy dots that will impact them (their issue/clients) that come from outside their world. And, too often, they are simply unable to speak a language that anyone outside … Read more