The Proposal Guys Jon and BJ's proposal blog
  • Home
  • About
  • SP Website
  • Contact
  • Subscribe
  • Home
  • About
  • SP Website
  • Contact
  • Subscribe

From politics to proposals

5/17/2007

2 Comments

 
Posted by Jon
​
Say what you will about Tony Blair – and, frankly, I’d rather you didn’t say much after we’ve been drowned in media reflections on his ten years in office over the past week – but the man’s a superb orator.

I was driving to the South-East last week when he gave his resignation speech. As regular readers will know, I’m always fascinated by political quotes that have proposal relevance. Two of Blair’s passages particularly echoed with me: the first discussed how “decision-making is hard”:​
“Doubt, hesitation, reflection, consideration and re-consideration – these are all the good companions of proper decision-making. But the ultimate obligation is to decide.”
The second phrase explored the high expectations people had had of his government when it came to power:
“So, of course, the vision is presented in the colours of the rainbow, and then the reality is sketched in the duller tones of black, white and grey.”
​I could sense the editors of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations reaching for their pens as he spoke… and saw obvious parallels with our world as proposal professionals.
2 Comments
Penny
3/26/2016 05:23:29 am

Here here! Those are perfect reflections of the processes within my company. Parhaps you can hire Mr. Blair (or at least his speech writer) – I’m sure they’re available. :-)

Reply
Jon
3/26/2016 05:23:43 am

Hi, Penny :-)

I believe Mr Blair will shortly be available for hire… if you have a mere six figure sum per speech!

(BJ and I come a lot cheaper, trust me!)

Jon

Reply

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Articles by Topic

    All
    APMP & Accreditation
    Interviews And The Panel
    Musings
    Processes & Best Practice
    Proposal Guys News
    Proposal Panda
    Proposal Training
    Purchasing Insights
    Word Play & Writing

    Authors

    BJ Lownie and Jon Williams are the co-founders of Strategic Proposals.

    Subscribe



    * Required fields

    SP News

    Strategic Proposals News

    RSS Feed

Picture
Website by Digital Media Design, Inc.