Lobbying

Do you want your doctor to treat the cause or symptom? If you go to a hospital with a spike through your leg, you don’t expect the doctors to give some pain medication for the symptoms and send you home. No, you expect them to treat the cause, remove the spike in your leg,  repair … Read more

However good a lobbyist you are, you are going to lose.  Sometimes, you won’t be able to persuade officials and politicians to back your case. Your client’s case may be politically hopeless,  or your political opponents too strong. You need to be able to cope with loss. It’s part of your work. Even when you … Read more

  One of the professional pleasures as a lobbyist  is to help guide a client  to understand an issue. After they utter, “Now, I get it”  they often  follow up  “Why do I now understand it, so and so make it seem really complicated” My answer goes along the following lines. Bluffing works. It’s easier … Read more

The Stoics emphasise the need for detachment. You should look at things as they are, and focus on the things that are only within your control. The Jesuits embrace a similar ideal: “We must make ourselves indifferent to all created things, as far as we are allowed… Consequently…we should not prefer health to sickness, riches to poverty, honor … Read more