Advocacy in Practice Interview with Ray LeBov
For today’s podcast, I sat down with veteran lobbyist and familiar voice, Ray LeBov. As I’m sure you remember from Ray’s many posts, he’s a 40+ year veteran of the California Legislature, working both in the Building as committee staff and in the third house.
He graciously
In today’s Rules for Effective Lobbying podcast we will be discussing some life rules as they apply to lobbying. Some of my previously mentioned rules have been specifically generated in the lobbying context. There are others that are really life rules of more general applicability.
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In today’s podcast we will be discussing another one of my rules for effective lobbying – never speak on behalf of another entity or purport to represent its position without specific, clear, definitive, precise
Rules for Effective Lobbying – Part 8 – Don’t Ignore the Minority Party
In today’s podcast, I talk about my eighth rule for being an effective lobbyist: don’t ignore the minority party. There are a number of reasons supporting this rule, among them: common courtesy, you may need their votes
Rules for Effective Lobbying Part 7 – Client Relations
In today’s podcast, I talk about my seventh rule for being an effective lobbyist: set yourself up for successful client relations. This is really a series of rules that will help you establish a solid foundation for a successful relationship with any client that
In today’s podcast, I talk about my sixth rule for being an effective lobbyist: knowing when to stop. This is closely related to last week’s rule about persistence tempered by patience.
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Perseverance Equals Persistence Plus Patience
In today’s podcast, I talk about my fifth rule for being an effective lobbyist; understanding that perseverance equals persistence plus patience. While perseverance is correctly cited as being key to a lobbyist’s success, it is also critical to an advocate’s success to not engage in the fallacy of
The Difference Between Motion and Action
In this podcast, I talk about my fourth rule for being an effective lobbyist, which is knowing the difference between motion and action. Every advocate can probably relate a painful experience of how they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by giving in to their – or
Not Letting the Perfect Become the Enemy of the Good
In this podcast, I talk about my third rule for being an effective lobbyist, which is not letting the perfect become the enemy of the good. While you or your client may love your bill, it is important to remember that most of the
In this In Practice podcast, I talk about my second rule for being an effective lobbyist, which is to always be honest. There are many reasons why it is important to always be honest, but perhaps the best reason is that it is easier to remember