Order The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers at Amazon.com for the low price of $12.95.  For a limited time, my blog readers can receive it at a special discount.  Go to this site, Wizard and enter the code 7PBGMXNC.  The book is an excellent gift for anyone who needs to persuade others. If you enumerated the 100 greatest ever scientific minds, Aristotle (384-322 BC) would be on your list.  Possibly, he could make the top 25.  For millennia, his genius was practically worshipped.  Ironically, that renown probably held science back for centuries. Aristotle taught that the speed of a falling object is directly proportional to its weight.  He taught that celestial motion is always circular.  He taught that the world was earth centric.  All three concepts were wrong, but it was unacceptable to challenge Aristotle.  […]

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Order The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers at Amazon.com for the low price of $12.95.  For a limited time, my blog readers can receive it at a special discount.  Go to this site, Wizard and enter the code 7PBGMXNC.  The book is an excellent gift for anyone who needs to persuade others. To get an automatic email reminder of every new post, send your email address to lgivens@thepersuasivewizard.com.  Make the subject Notify Me. I will not sell or distribute your email information. In the final scene of Gone With the Wind, the chagrined Katie Scarlett O’Hara agonizes over the departure of the dashing Rhett Butler.  Scarlett inwardly affirms she will win him back because, “After all … tomorrow is another day.” Maybe you wake up that way, feeling every morning brings a new day.  You

Order The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers at Amazon.com for the low price of $12.95.  For a limited time, my blog readers can receive it at a special discount.  Go to this site, Wizard and enter the code 7PBGMXNC.  The book is an excellent gift for anyone who needs to persuade others. To get an automatic email reminder of every new post, send your email address to lgivens@thepersuasivewizard.com.  Make the subject Notify Me. I will not sell or distribute your email information. Among technologists, the value of the administrative assistant often is unnoticed and unappreciated. Consider top performing technologists.  They are creative, innovative, out-of-the-box thinkers.  ADD is a rite of passage.  “Twiddle” and “Fiddle” are line-items on their time cards.  Giddiness and euphoria are reactions experienced after hours of labor result in an Android application

Order The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers at Amazon.com for the low price of $12.95.  My blog readers can receive it at a special discount.  Go to this site, Wizard and enter the code 7PBGMXNC.  The book is an excellent gift for anyone seeking promotion or looking for a job. To get an automatic email reminder of every new post, send your email address to lgivens@thepersuasivewizard.com.  Make the subject line Notify Me. I will not sell or distribute your email information. If you are involved with any group of creative individuals, you know that interactions can get complicated in a hurry.  Upon reading in my book about an imbecilic incidence between two otherwise intellectual giants, a reader asked, “But, why would anyone do that?”  I could think of no good reason.  I can expound on the

Order The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers at Amazon.com for the low price of $12.95.  For a limited time, my blog readers can receive it at a special discount.  Go to this site, Wizard and enter the code 7PBGMXNC.  The book is an excellent gift for anyone who needs to persuade others. To get an automatic email reminder of every new post, send your email address to lgivens@thepersuasivewizard.com.  Make the subject Notify Me. I will not sell or distribute your email information. Throughout my experiences, I have gathered nuggets of value.  Some of these I wrote about in my book.  Others, I discuss in this forum.  Collectively, they constitute elements of Technology Persuasion.  All are aimed at trying to make technologists more effective and more successful. Today’s coin is this: “If you’re not in the

Order The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers at Amazon.com for the low price of $12.95.  For a limited time, my blog readers can receive it at a special discount.  Go to this site, Wizard and enter the code 7PBGMXNC.  The book is an excellent gift for anyone who needs to persuade others. To get an automatic email reminder of every new post, send your email address to lgivens@thepersuasivewizard.com.  Make the subject Notify Me. I will not sell or distribute your email information. Joe Paterno, age 84, ended 46-years as the iconic head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions.  Paterno reached a pinnacle this year by winning more football games than any other coach in the history of college athletics.  His storied accomplishments were tackled short of the goal line by the recent revelation that

Order The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers at Amazon.com for the low price of $12.95.  My blog readers can receive it at a special discount.  Go to this site, Wizard and enter the code 7PBGMXNC.  The book is an excellent gift for learning persuasion – for any audience. To get an automatic email reminder of every new post, send your email address to lgivens@thepersuasivewizard.com.  Make the subject Notify Me. I will not sell or distribute your email information. Sometime around 1990, I was driving my rental car up the mountain road from Oakland, California to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).  This was my first visit on a secret collaboration with LLNL.  Awed by the landscape, I was amazed that anyone could ever visit this beautiful area and not fall in love with it.  Although

Order The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers at Amazon.com for the low price of $12.95.  For a limited time, my blog readers can receive it at a special discount.  Go to this site, Wizard and enter the code 7PBGMXNC.  The book is an excellent gift for anyone who needs to persuade others. To get an automatic email reminder of every new post, send your email address to lgivens@thepersuasivewizard.com.  Make the subject Notify Me. I will not sell or distribute your email information. Ask total strangers to name a physicist.  Their response, if any, will be Albert Einstein.  (One can only hope that Morgan Freeman‘s name is not suggested.)  Require a woman’s name and the reply can only be, “Marie Curie,”  the only name any will know. Madame Curie can teach you a great deal about technology persuasion,

Order The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers at Amazon.com for the low price of $12.95.  For a limited time, my blog readers can receive it at a special discount.  Go to this site, Wizard and enter the code 7PBGMXNC.  The book is an excellent gift for anyone who needs to persuade others. To get an automatic email reminder of every new post, send your email address to lgivens@thepersuasivewizard.com.  Make the subject Notify Me. I will not sell or distribute your email information. The blues melodies of George and Ira Gershwin never crooned so doleful as when they moaned for “Someone To Watch Over Me.”  My mother would have warned, “Be careful for what you wish.” This week, the Wall Street Journal wrote that FBI agents had located and nabbed the “Hacker,” one Daniel Rigmaiden.  The Federal