I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
If you work in a chaotic organisation you need to read this book. This book to ‘provides guidance to individuals who find themselves working in unruly organisations’. It is useful for any one working in government, not for profit or for profit. I only regret that it took me so long to come across such … Read more
A good lobbyist will spend a lot of their time writing memos. The spent here is a lot more useful than sitting on internal calls, meetings and brainstorms. There is something coldly objective about seeing a case written down. Your weaknesses and gaps glare up from the page. Puffery and weak thinking are amplified. This … Read more
I have a weakness for good public policy. Some would call it a fetish. In Brussels finding examples of good public policy is like the search for the unicorn. It is rumoured to exist, yet few, if anyone has seen it. For me, good public policy making moves beyond the gut response of most. Too … Read more
There are lot of books on EU Lobbying. Two recent reads I enjoyed are: Lobby.eu: Survival Guide to EU Lobbying, including the Use of Social Media – by Caroline De Cock How the EU Institutions Work and… How to Work with the EU Institutions by Hardacre and Aske Most of the books looks at the EU Institutions … Read more