Gillespie Strategies
The arches that formed the foundations for Ancient Rome’s buildings, bridges and aqueducts relied on a single keystone. The wedge-shaped piece at the summit of an arch is the central, cohesive source of support and stability. Without a well crafted and properly set keystone, the entire structure would crumble.
The keystone is at the center of the graphic for Ed Gillespie Strategies because a well conceived strategy is the central, cohesive element of any successful effort to achieve an important objective. If the strategy is not well conceived, the effort will likely fail.
A well conceived strategy is the centerpiece for the personnel decisions, project assignments and tactics necessary to win in the marketplace of ideas. The number of people who have the experience, vision and insight necessary to craft an overarching strategy—who can craft a keystone for success—is limited.
Ed Gillespie is widely recognized as one of those people.
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Lame duck session poses threat to Democrats this November
Democrats in Congress are clearly considering convening a lame duck session of congress after November’s elections to move much of their liberal agenda. Last week Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to rule it out, and when Senator John Kerry was asked recently if cap-and-trade legislation was dead, he said it wasn’t because “we’re going to have a lame-duck session and we have weeks ahead of us.”
Brazile & Gillespie: Congress Can Expedite the Presidential Transition
For most Americans, the morning after a presidential election has been decided represents a moment of relief. Relief that months of campaign commercials, debates and a seemingly endless stream of canvassers knocking on their doors and phoners interrupting their dinners are finally over — relief at the end of a long and exhausting process.
However, for the election winner’s staff, that morning is the official beginning of a stressful and complicated process that can make or break the new president’s first two years in office.