Will Straw and Matt Browne
Will Straw and Matt Browne Will Straw is Associate Director for Economic Growth at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC. He also served as a senior policy advisor on regulatory reform for Her Majesty's Treasury in the UK. Matt Browne is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC and a former Director of the international think tank Policy Network.
Strategy and Organising – Lessons from the Obama Campaign
Sun Tzu wrote that, ‘strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.’ Obama and his campaign internalised this maxim. They combined a political strategy that focussed on a singular narrative and open organisational structure with modern tools to maximise fundraising and voter mobilisation. The critical difference [...]