To spark innovation, it helps to influence the dialogue around new ideas.
I mean, everybody says to me, 'You could influence the dialogue.' Well, I can't influence the dialogue if I can't tell you, 'Ben, write this.' " He seemed slightly exasperated by all the hopes associated with his expected transition into full-time philanthropy.
Mr. Bloomberg has repeatedly said that he is not a candidate, and explained recently he is speaking out on national issues as part of an "experiment" to influence the dialogue in the race.
For example, author integration allows to see whether the external voice is recognized in the text beyond a citation, which may influence the dialogue.
Or executives will spend weeks before arriving trying to get a 15-minute meeting with Mrs. Merkel or Ms. Lagarde in the hope of influencing the dialogue over the euro.
On the other hand, the interviewer's experience of primary care may have created a shared blindness and may have influenced the dialogue, interpretations and the results.
As it turned out, by the time of his midsummer travels with Ed Rendell, Bloomberg had already begun reaching out to Murdoch and Zuckerman and, most important, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., who controls the Times, to see if they might like to exert some influence over the dialogue, as it were, in support of undoing the term limits that would have forced their fellow media mogul out of office in 2010.
"You can never underestimate the Working Families Party's ability to influence the political dialogue through the electoral process," said Micah Lasher, who once worked as a political consultant to the party.
The ad campaign represents an aggressive attempt by the Working Families Party, which would seem to be a natural political ally of the governor's, to try to influence the public dialogue on property taxes and the New York economy as a whole.
This has clearly been on the mind of President Zuma in South Africa, who has attempted to influence the political dialogue.
