Political Communication

I find checklists helpful. I reason if conference planners, surgeons and pilots use checklists, political consultants can use them as well. I have a pile of checklists filed away on most legislative and regulatory procedures and campaign models. How to Deal with an NGO Campaign From time to time, you may be targeted by an … Read more

Summer vacations are a good time to read and reflect. In preparation for an upcoming talk  I am giving later this year,  I re-read for the umpteenth  Chris Rose’s campaign bible, ‘How to Win Campaigns.’ As I went through my personal dog eared copy full of annotations, I learned new things. and was reminded of … Read more

A lot of technical and scientific writing is drab. You’d assume that this type of writing was preordained to be lifeless. Many technical and scientific reports seem as if the writer’s words are designed to close down the reader’s mind as quickly as possible. It does not have it to be so. Rachael Carson’s ‘The … Read more

 You’re often going to have a client who has a message that key decision-makers in the commission, the Parliament, and the Member States, just don’t care about. When you run your case by them,  your audience  eyes glaze over, they look up into the air, and cross their arms,  or turn their focus to their … Read more