Clinic #151: Why Stopping Your Proposals is Easy
Once you understand why, you have a better chance of getting controversial projects funded and implemented!
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Category: The Role of Politics
Clinic #143: Do citizen groups have the right to prevail?
Organized citizen groups need to demonstrate their authenticity by obtaining power. Be careful that you don’t give away your decision-making responsibilities to citizen groups or Advisory Committees.
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Clinic #141: Why You Must Interact directly with People, Not only through their Representatives
Even if they agree with your work, you can’t rely on them to “deliver” the diverse constituents they represent
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Clinic #125: “How can we reach ALL our stakeholders — when we have rules that PROHIBIT us from lobbying policymakers?”
How can we reach decision-makers without violating the rules?
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Clinic #119: Prevent the Public Debate from becoming Uninformed… Misinformed… downright Stupid
When your political policymakers ignore your team’s recommendation, it’s because they’ve been listening to an UNINFORMED … MISINFORMED … public debate. We’ll talk about how you can PREVENT that kind of public debate
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Clinic #97: Immunize Your Work from Stakeholder End-Runs
“Why do stakeholders bypass us and go right to decision-makers?” It’s frustratingly common that this happens. Even when you genuinely seek the public’s input. Why do stakeholder sidestep your engagement process? It’s designed for them, right?!? We’ll shed some light on why you’re getting end-run. And exactly what you can do to prevent it.
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Clinic #96: Protect Your Work from Citizen Anger (and Politics!)
Your public has found the ultimate tool to get you to listen: Politics!
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Clinic #94: “Politics” Isn’t a “Four-Lettered Word”
There’s two kinds of Decision-Making: Rational and Political. But they aren’t (always) opposites! “If it weren’t for ‘Politics’ we could have implemented our proposal!” We hear you.
“Politics is the biggest monkey on our backs!” True… and it’s possible to get this monkey off your back. “Politics is the cause of more of our failure than anything else!” Let us show you how to keep politics from stalling, shelving, or torpedoing your projects.
Clinic #93: You might have Opponents, but you don’t have Enemies
But don’t give in to the pressure to change your technical recommendations!
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Clinic #91: Is the Fox Guarding Your Henhouse?
This is not a new phenomenon…Even if it is for you and your team. If you’re always on guard (ready for a fox to take charge), you can virtually immunize yourself from becoming a political target.
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