"There is a huge limitation about how much contact someone like me can have with the big decision makers," she said, but a critical first step is reaching out: "Not just reaching out to experts, with big titles and degrees after his name, but people with experience".
"Sometimes they even change the minds of the city's big decision makers; better yet is when a columnist changes their plans".
There's a big NATO gathering coming up in early December, where all of the big decision makers will gather in Brussels to discuss Afghanistan.
The U.S. mission was to destroy al-Qaida and, along the way, the dictatorship that was harboring the people who attacked the U.S. Eight years later we're dealing with a would-be terrorist who claims al-Qaida membership, and oh by the way, all the big decision makers in that organization may be in Yemen.
For folks so ancient they grew up before cable television — often the big decision makers in government — talking about "drones" is like talking about something being "space-age" or "computerized" or on the "World Wide Web".
These were not the big decision makers in the ministries of the Reich or staff officers in the rear of the frontline but small cogs in the gigantic murderous machinery of what was then the Third Reich.
"We can collect and analyse the data that is missing on young people, and share this with the big decision-makers," he says.
Some pharmaceutical companies and consultants said the industry mainly used the data to market to big decision-makers like insurers, by demonstrating that their drugs are more cost-effective or show better outcomes for patients.
But the troops on the ground and the big decision-makers at, say, the Pentagon, are entirely different populations, and I think the third-country nationals actually recognize that distinction.
