Winning the Influence Game

de Michael D. Watkins, Mickey Edwards, Usha Thakrar

"Winning the Influence Game is your guide to navigating the morass of competing, overlapping jurisdictions and diverse legislators, regulators, and judges so you can help to shape the laws and rules that will affect your success. Here, a crackerjack author team from Harvard Business School and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government - who have access to the key players on this issue - reveal the latest tools, techniques, and thinking behind influencing government so businesses can take control.". "This book presents a model that can be applied to influence games at any level of government - local, state, national, or international. From diagnosing government's impact on your business to organizing to influence to building coalitions to leveraging the power of the Internet, the authors provide specific guidelines and real-world strategies that will work for all types of businesses.". "Winning the Influence Game also shares actual stories of successes and failures from recognized leaders in the field of government relations."--BOOK JACKET.