I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
Aaron If you find your days full of back-to-back meetings, here are some tactics that I found helped. 1 . Screencast If you find that you are giving the same talk to group after group, screencast your talk and send it in advance. The 20 minutes it will take you to record will send you … Read more
On Monday, the Heads of Cabinet adopted items for the College to adopt from 24 May to 19 September that dropped some expected Food and Biodiversity proposals. By Wednesday, those proposals had returned. I’d like to see the official minutes of HEBDO to understand what led to the delay. Maybe the calls from … Read more
If you want to get a sober analysis of a Commission’s proposal, spend some time and read the Regulatory Scrutiny Board‘s opinion(s) on it. If you want to read them, you need to head over here to the register of documents and run a search. The opinion(s) are published when the legislative proposal is … Read more
Years ago, I learned my most valuable lobbying technique: tell the right story to the right person in terms of their values. If you want to persuade anyone, you need to look at the issue from their perspective. You need to walk in their shoes. And when you have done that, you can put forward … Read more