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A History of Changes

15-Dec-19

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 to Persuasion 101. Added

 

 to Visual Perception: How We See. Added

 

 to Thinking. Added

 

 to Guest articles. Added

 

 to Blog!

15-Dec-19

Added Do Background Research to Persuasion 101. Added Mind Classifies Object to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Stereotyping to Thinking. Added We Don’t Know How to Hear Each Other: how biases distort our conversations to Guest articles. Added Well, at least Brexit is on the road to somewhere now to Blog!

24-Nov-19

Added Understand to Persuasion 101. Added Mind Closes on Object to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Homogenizing to Thinking. Added Change Without Resistance: Podcast series and article on generating buy-in with systems thinking to Guest articles. Added The Power of Credibility in Politics (and How This is Not Always Enough) to Blog!

03-Nov-19

Added Equality and Entitlement to Articles on Politics. Added Identify Learning Strategy to Persuasion 101. Added Mind Separates Subject (Figure) From Background  to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Force-fitting to Thinking. Added Don’t You Realize Selling Doesn’t Cause Buying? to Guest articles. Added To change lives, change what people tell themselves about the world, others and (most of all) themselves to Blog!

13-Oct-19

Added Competitive or Collaborative Persuasion: A Critical Decision to Persuasion 101. Added Mind Separates Subject From Background  to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Assuming to Thinking. Added Training vs Learning: do you want to train? Or have someone learn? to Guest articles. Added Standing on the Brink: Brexit, Impeachment and Climate to Blog!

29-Sep-19

Added Four As of Social Needs to Needs. Added How Long Should You Take in Preparing to Persuade? to Persuasion 101. Added Mind Separates Inside from Outside to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Avoiding Thinking to Thinking. Added How Aspies think, Why We Do Weird Stuff, and Why We’re Important to Guest articles. Added The Boss Whisperer to Blog!

22-Sep-19

Added The Curse of Ignorance to Learning. Added Know What You Do Not Understand to Persuasion 101. Added Texture Makes Surface to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Forgetting to Thinking. Added Communication Competence to Guest articles. Added How Norway sold salmon to Japan by changing its name to Blog!

15-Sep-19

Added Ask for Help to Building Rapport. Added Understand What They Want to Persuasion 101. Added Fine Detail Becomes Texture to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Accepting to Thinking. Added Recognize Buyers on the First Call to Guest articles. Added Signs are not just indicators -- they also shape social order to Blog!

11-May-19 to 15-Sep-19

Computer crash, setting up new system and vacation!

05-May-19

Added Doubt and Emotional Choice to Decisions. Added Understand What You Want to Persuasion 101. Added Mind Seeks Detail to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Finnis' Principles of Practical Reasoning to Thinking. Added The Power of the Default Option to Guest articles. Added How to stop an epidemic with considerate kindness rather than strict policing to Blog!

28-Apr-19

Added Hubris and Humility to Self-Development Methods. Added Understand the Other Person to Persuasion 101. Added Mind Matches Patterns to Visual Perception: How We See. Added What is Thinking? to Thinking. Added Do We Forget Our Values With ‘Different’ People? to Guest articles. Added Brainers, golden geese and nudging politicians, using memorable memes to Blog!

21-Apr-19

Added Understand Yourself to Persuasion 101. Added Mind Prefers Basic Shapes to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Traumatic Fixation to Thinking. Added Behavior Modification doesn't modify behaviors: an essay on why it fails and what to use  to Guest articles. Added Grumpy taxi drivers and the power of positivity to Blog!

24-Mar-19

Added Understand the Situation to Persuasion 101. Added Mind Seeks Shape to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Regret to Thinking. Added Questions: the New Superpower to Guest articles. Added On the Brink of Brexit: TV questions, Petitions, Marches and Parliamentary Madness to Blog!

17-Mar-19

Added Seven Principles For Projecting Confidence to Articles on Persuasion. Added Eye Traces Outline to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Nostalgia to Thinking. Started Persuasion 101 with About Persuasion. Added Pick People Well to Guest articles. Added Cost pressure, outsourcing, diffusion of responsibility and ultimate catastrophe to Blog!

10-Mar-19

Added Agree and Extend to Sequential Requests. Added Pointers Direct Movement to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Anticipated Envy to Thinking. Added Taking Sides to Conversational Traps. Added Sales as a Spiritual Practice to Guest articles. Added Can rebels ever succeed? It's not as easy as it might seem to Blog!

24-Feb-19

Added Two Types of Truth to Beliefs. Added The Emotionally of Brexit and the Desperation to Appear Rational to Analysis. Added Projecting Forward to Thinking. Added Wise Statements to Conversational Traps. Added Successful Fundraising: getting chosen over the competition to Guest articles. Added The Trump in all of us (but which we don't let out) to Blog!

10-Feb-19

Added Brexit Brinksmanship: The Cliff-edge On Which Everyone is Banking to Analysis. Added Projecting Forward to Thinking. Added Overstaying Your Welcome to Conversational Traps. Added The two-part photographer's question to Blog!

27-Jan-19

Added Anticipated Pleasure to Thinking. Added Over-niceness to Conversational Traps. Added Communication Competence: the case for enhanced soft skills for our new digital world to Guest articles. Added A rather strange Vodaphone service experience to Blog!

20-Jan-19

Added Anticipated Regret to Thinking. Added Brexit, Broken Majorities and Consequent Chaos to Analysis. Added Telling Secrets to Conversational Traps. Added Starting a Tech Company in 1983: the education of an ignorant entrepreneur to Guest articles. Added The words we use betray our beliefs, values and overall personality to Blog!

13-Jan-19

Started Thinking in Explanations with What-if thinking. Added Analysis and Improvements: Trump, Pelosi, Schumer, and the Oval Office Address about the Border Wall to Analysis. Added Seeking Sympathy to Conversational Traps. Added Collaborative Decision Making for Successful Implementations to Guest articles. Added In making a life, do what you must -- but ensure it is LSD! to Blog!

30-Dec-18

Four Motivational Styles to Motivation. Added Dual-track to Politics. Added Irrelevancies to Conversational Traps. Added Our Listening Biases Restrict Success to Guest articles. Added The more it changes, the more it stays the same: the face of persuasion over the years and the enduring need for trust to Blog!

16-Dec-18

Added The RoC Trust Model to Trust. Added Undermine the person to Politics. Added Fishing for Praise to Conversational Traps. Added Resolving Unconscious Bias to Guest articles. Added Tabloids, Trump and the media: shock, outrage and the unholy alliance to Blog!

25-Nov-18

Added False Modesty to Conversational Traps. Added Keep it Short and Simple (KISS Principle) to Persuasive Language. Added Undermine their position to Politics. Added BUY IN: how to procure compliance, and why it seems difficult to Guest articles. Added Would President Trump lie under oath? Yes and no. And where might it all go? to Blog!

18-Nov-18

Added Stages of Motivation Across a Project or Activity to Motivation. Added Social Capital to Relationships. Added Keep Friends to Ways to Happiness. Started Conversational Traps with Asking for Help. Added How, Why, and When Buyers Buy to Guest articles. Added The Pick-of-the-Crop Effect: How industry leaders sustain their lead to Blog!

21-Oct-18

Added Proximal and Distal Language to Persuasive Language. Added Gradient of Lines to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Four message strategies to Politics. Added The Real "Buyer’s Journey" or, the reason selling doesn't cause buying to Guest articles. Added Dropping phones and tipping opportunities to Blog!

07-Oct-18

Added Caucusing to Politics. Added Sacred Beliefs to Beliefs. Added The Problem With Information: the right time to pitch, gather, share, and advise to Guest articles. Added How to be famous: Gibson Assembly and the One-step isothermal invitero recombination method to Blog!

09-Sep-18

Added Lightning-Rod strategy to Politics. Added Teaching a Dog to Stand to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Lines Separate to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Practical Decision Making: getting it righter to Guest articles. Added How to be famous: Gibson Assembly and the One-step isothermal invitero recombination method to Blog!

26-Aug-18

Added Leeching strategy to Politics. Added Teaching a Dog to Lie Down to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Eye Follows Dominant Line to Visual Perception: How We See. Added We Close Only The Low Hanging Fruit. Do You Know Why? to Guest articles. Added King Lear, its modern-day relevance and the exhaustion of acting to Blog!

12-Aug-18

Added Technology strategy to Politics. Added Teaching a Dog to Sit to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added The Eye Follows Similar Line to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Why Change Seems So Hard: Essay on facilitating buy-in and avoiding resistance to Guest articles. Added The Power of Crying in Persuasion and Interrogation to Blog!

29-Jul-18

Added Pearl Harbor strategy to Politics. Added Crate Training to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Intersections Add Effort to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Assumptions: Why Being Right Is Wrong to Guest articles. Added Three adjectives to describe Donald Trump to Blog!

22-Jul-18

Added Bookend strategy to Politics. Added Clicker Training to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Angles Add Effort to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Addressing Diversity Through Listening to Guest articles. Added Persuasion in the Cathedral: Carrots, Sticks and Friendly Nudges to Blog!

08-Jul-18

Added Identity Politics to Politics and Identity. Added Reward Extinction to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Straight Lines Reduce Effort to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Servant Leadership: new skills to serve others, and why the old ones don't work to Guest articles. Added The Power of Doubt: How uncertainty undermines even strong arguments to Blog!

01-Jul-18

Added Tortoise Strategy to Politics. Added Rewarding Stopping to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Eye Extrapolates Line to Visual Perception: How We See. Added How Listening Filters Cause Misunderstanding to Guest articles. Added To change lives, change what people tell themselves about the world, others and (most of all) themselves to Blog!

03-Jun-18

Added Moral Persuasion to More Persuasion Methods. Added Remotivation to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Lines are Like Eye-Roads to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Sell to Prospects who CAN/WILL Buy to Guest articles. Added The Truman Show, The Matrix, Stage Theory and Transitions to Blog!

20-May-18

Added Tend and Befriend to Coping Mechanisms. Added Omission Training to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Eye Fills In Line to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Write Content That Facilitates Buying Decisions to Guest articles. Added Brain Function, Intelligence, Mental Illness and the Future to Blog!

13-May-18

Added The 'Three Rs': Core Values to Teach Your Children (and Adopt Yourself) to Values. Added Train for Bad to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Eye Follows Line to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Sellers Ask the Wrong Questions to Guest articles. Added Us and them: How terrorism is good for us, though it is bad for all of us to Blog!

29-Apr-18

Added Nostalgia to Memory. Added Delaying to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Practical Decision Making: getting it righter to Guest articles. Added Review: Psychology, Emotion and Intuition in Work Relationships to Management books. Added The momentum of wrong and the courage of change to Blog!

22-Apr-18

Added Four Methods used in Fake News to Propaganda. Added Three Basic Motivations to Motivation. Added Diversion to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added I Hear You My Way to Guest articles. Added Why do we keep touching our phones? to Blog!

15-Apr-18

Added Dog-Fooding to Marketing Articles. Added The Goldilocks Technique to Closing Techniques. Added Eye Seeks Line to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Disruption to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Why Building Relationships is an Unsuccessful Sales Technique to Guest articles. Added Charging for Parking at the Mall?? to Blog!

08-Apr-18

Added Optimism Bias to Academic Theories. Added Final Furlong to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Light Attracts Eye to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Distraction to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added How To Help Buyers Shift Their Status Quo to Guest articles. Added Slipping quality of service at Celebrity cruises to Blog!

07-Mar-18

Added Virtue Signaling to Values. Added Object Contrast to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Extinction to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Auctions to Pricing in Marketing. Added Asperger’s put to work: an essay on coding choice and decision making to Guest articles. Added Primate Politics: How we are not that different to our chimpanzees cousins to Blog!

04-Mar-18

Added Kantor's Four Players to Preferences. Added Color Space to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Negative Reinforcement to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Left-side Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Big Push: why sellers, doctors, coaches, and leaders, don’t affect permanent change to Guest articles. Added Don't don't. The mind doesn't know nothing about notable negatives to Blog!

25-Feb-18

Added Leave Them Wanting More to Building Rapport. Added Colorfulness, Saturation, Chrominance and Other Ways of Understanding Color to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Punishment to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Separated Price to Pricing in Marketing. Added Some Truths about Systems, and How they Affect Change to Guest articles. Added Tim Ferriss is wrong -- no, maybe he's right! to Blog!

11-Feb-18

Added Area to Gestalt Theory. Added Lightness, Luminosity, Luminance and Other Tonal Descriptors to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Banishment to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Smaller Font to Pricing in Marketing. Added Trust: what it is, and how to initiate it to Guest articles. Added Advert overload : when monetization fails to Blog!

28-Jan-18

Added Being Weak to Negotiation Mistakes. Added Hue, Saturation and Luminosity to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Release Periods to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Make Me An Offer to Pricing in Marketing. Added Healthcare Apps Can Facilitate Patient Compliance to Guest articles. Added Simplicity, complexity, extremism and moderation: How much you think changes how you behave to Blog!

21-Jan-18

Added Gut-Feel Decisions to Decisions. Added Tint, Shade and Tone to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Learning Dip to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Limit Per Customer to Pricing in Marketing. Added Mother Knows Best to Guest articles. Added Getting the job: the least worst candidate, Theresa May and the hoped-for great saviour to Blog!

07-Jan-18

Added Three Cs of Political Choice to Articles on Politics. Added Twelve Color Wheel to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Generalized Stimulus Control to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Using Coupons or Vouchers to Pricing in Marketing. Added To Change Behaviors, First Change Beliefs: an essay for change agents to Guest articles. Added But is it art? The tricky question of whether computers can be artists to Blog!

31-Dec-17

And a Happy New Year! Added Dialog Involvement to Sequential Requests. Added Trichromatic Colour Theory to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Action Chains to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added This Week Only to Pricing in Marketing. Added Recognize Buyers on the First Call to Guest articles. Added The years spin by: the psychology of time perception and how our priorities change to Blog!

24-Dec-17

Happy Christmas everyone! Added Unit Asking to Sequential Requests. Added Hue Contrast to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Anticipation Response to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Few Left At Price to Pricing in Marketing. Added Guys Aren’t Gender Neutral: the how and why of (un)biased communication to Guest articles. Added Are we sleepwalking back to an age of feudal, absolute power? to Blog!

17-Dec-17

Added Test and Request to Sequential Requests. Added Vision Opponent Process Theory to Visual Perception: How We See. Added The Limited Hold to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Multiple Signs to Pricing in Marketing. Added Upselling with Integrity: connecting authentically with your target market to Guest articles. Added Negotiating chaos and lost trust: the price of bluff and bravado to Blog!

03-Dec-17

Added Epicurean Tetrapharmakos to Ways to Happiness. Added Tone Contrast to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Response Lag to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Shout 'Sale!' to Pricing in Marketing. Added Boredom: A Route To Creativity to Guest articles. Added Subtle headlines and deeper psychology: language used in reporting of the retweet scandal to Blog!

26-Nov-17

Added Pace and Lead to Sequential Requests. Added Dark Repels Eye to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Transfer of Stimulus Control to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Double Price to Pricing in Marketing. Added Influencing Congruent, Unbiased Change: serving with integrity to Guest articles. Added The illusion of confidence and the road to mastery to Blog!

19-Nov-17

Added Foot In The Mouth Effect to Sequential Requests. Added Eye Avoids Blur to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Discriminative Stimulus to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Free Extras to Pricing in Marketing. Added Two Cold Call Case Studies: Why Your Cold Calls Aren't Working to Guest articles. Added Basil Fawlty, Donald Trump and a whole conference of psychoanalysts to Blog!

05-Nov-17

Added Loving Coping to Ways to Happiness. Added Zones of Contrast to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Four Rules of Stimulus and Action to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Recommended Retail Price (RRP) to Pricing in Marketing. Added Putting People First: the path to Customer Centricity to Guest articles. Added Reconnecting: a natural response to vulnerability to Blog!

29-Oct-17

Added Foot in the Face Technique (FITF) to Sequential Requests. Added Contrast Variables to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Modeling to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Competitive Price Comparison to Pricing in Marketing. Added Inside Curiosity to Guest articles. Added The madness of Brexit and blind, belief-based decision-making to Blog!

15-Oct-17

Added Physical Activity to Ways to Happiness. Added Initial Contrast to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Mimicry to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added When Perfect to Pricing in Marketing. Added How Sales Overlooks Buyers: Essay and Q&A to Guest articles. Added Poundland Boris, Trumpelthinskin and the strange fascination with narcissists to Blog!

24-Sep-17

Added Pitch and Putt to Sequential Requests. Added The Principle of Contrast to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Shaping to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Rising Strike-Out to Pricing in Marketing. Added The ‘How’ of Choice: beyond ‘Why’ and ‘What’ to Guest articles. Added The power of the moral high ground to Blog!

10-Sep-17

Added The Five Bs of Dictators to Articles on Politics. Added How the Eye Detects Light to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Stimulus Control to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Multiple Price Cuts to Pricing in Marketing. Added What, Exactly, is an Opportunity? to Guest articles. Added Climate change, Pascal and belief to Blog!

03-Sep-17

Added Natural vs Necessary Needs to Needs. Added Eye Dimensions, Data and Statistics to Visual Perception: How We See. Added Superstition to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Hidden Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Trust: what it is, and how to initiate it to Guest articles. Added Drink and disorderly: the case of the confusing wine menu to Blog!

20-Aug-17

Added Three Ins of Communication to Communication Articles. Started Visual Perception: How We See in Perception with The Lens System of the Eyes. Added Habituation to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Tax-Free Price to Pricing in Marketing. Added Why Buyers Buy to Guest articles. Added Tragedy, Opportunity, Privatization and Politics to Blog!

13-Aug-17

Added The Reason for Reason to Articles about Argument. Added Sensitization to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Three Tier Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Trait-centred Leadership vs. Servant Leadership to Guest articles. Added Selfishness, Capitalism, Democracy: where are we going? to Blog!

06-Aug-17

Added Throw Away the Speech to Speaking Tips in Public Speaking and Presentation. Added Variable Reinforcement to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Usage Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Why We Get Objections to Guest articles. Added Capitalist Carpe Diem: Hedonism and Despair in the Modern World to Blog!

30-Jul-17

Added Surprise Bonus to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Morality Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Low Start Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added To Change Behaviors, First Change Beliefs: an essay for change agents to Guest articles. Added Transitions, Celebrations and Marking Boundaries to Blog!

30-Jul-17

Added Surprise Bonus to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Morality Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Low Start Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added To Change Behaviors, First Change Beliefs: an essay for change agents to Guest articles. Added Transitions, Celebrations and Marking Boundaries to Blog!

23-Jul-17

Added Reinforcement to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Status Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added License Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Facilitating Compliance: helping patients choose health to Guest articles. Added How much evidence do you need? How do I know I am a nice person? to Blog!

16-Jul-17

Added Reinforcement Schedules to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Reciprocal Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Direct Debit Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Sales as a Spiritual Practice to Guest articles. Added The Psychology of Trump: Three surprising preferences that drive how he behaves to Blog!

09-Jul-17

Away.

03-Jul-17

Added Conditioned Aversion to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Reasoning Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Price Matching to Pricing in Marketing. Added How do you pay for your life? The shift to loans, information, donations and subscriptions to Blog! Added Review: What Would Freud Do?, by Sarah Tomley (and What Would Nietzsche Do?, by Marcus Weeks) to Book reviews.

26-Jun-17

Away.

18-Jun-17

Added Conditioned Reinforcer to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Reasoning-based Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Dynamic Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Who is That Mystery Shopper? Part 4 to Guest articles. Added Poverty and the dysfunctional focus of chronic lack to Blog!

11-Jun-17

Added Surprise Bonus to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Punishment-based Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Freemium Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Who is That Mystery Shopper? Part 3 to Guest articles. Added Politics, Brand and the Detoxification Problem to Blog!

04-Jun-17

Added Negative Reinforcement to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Positive Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Base Point Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Who is That Mystery Shopper? Part 2 to Guest articles. Added Elections, leadership and the ever-shifting polls to Blog!

28-May-17

Added Positive Reinforcement to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Strategies Involving Other People to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Basic-Plus Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Sales as a Spiritual Practice to Guest articles. Added Needy or greedy: a blind political assumption to Blog!

21-May-17

Added Fading to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Kindness Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Seat Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Sell to Prospects who CAN/WILL Buy to Guest articles. Added Blame and Shame: Negative methods, destructive results to Blog!.

14-May-17

Added Demonstrating to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Negative Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Everest Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Selling Ideas to Colleagues to Guest articles. Added Bashful billionaires, billionaires that bash, and those that become puppeteers to Blog!.

07-May-17

Added Denialism to Beliefs. Added Guiding to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole: Inspiration-based Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Go Away Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Optimizing Buyer Personas to Facilitate Pre-Sales Decisions to Guest articles. Added One dollar, ten dollar: the power of embarrassing bargains to Blog!.

30-Apr-17

Away.

23-Apr-17

Away.

16-Apr-17

Added Delay to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Helpful Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Reduced To to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Real 'Buyer’s Journey' or, the reason selling doesn't cause buying to Guest articles. Added Culture, anger and negotiation to Blog!. And you can hear Dave being interviewed by Will Barron at The Salesman Podcast.

09-Apr-17

Added Luring to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole: Framing Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Quantity Discount to Pricing in Marketing. Added How To Help Buyers Shift Their Status Quo to Guest articles. Added The second American Civil War to Blog!

02-Apr-17

Added Cue to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Esteem-based Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Twofer to Pricing in Marketing. Added Questioning Questions to Guest articles. Added Anti-Political Correctness as Power to Blog!

24-Mar-17

Added Pairing to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Emotional Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added BOGOF to Pricing in Marketing. Added Sales, Marketing and Social Can Be More Successful. Hint: it's not about your content to Guest articles. Added Leave, Remain or Stay: Small words that may have changed the world to Blog!

19-Mar-17

Away.

12-Mar-17

Added Reward to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Disclaimer Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Absolute Discount to Pricing in Marketing. Added Influencers vs. Facilitators: essay on enabling change congruently to Guest articles. Added Our two greatest challenges to Blog!

05-Mar-17

Added Stimulus to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Direct Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Veblen Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added Are Servant Leaders Obsolete? to Guest articles. Added Knowing, ignorance and self-knowledge to Blog!

26-Feb-17

Added Action to Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Deceptive Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Percentage Discount to Pricing in Marketing. Added Checklist for Influencers: questions for sellers, coaches, leaders, change agents to Guest articles. Added Do, Lead, Help, Nudge or Watch to Blog!

19-Feb-17

Started Conditioning and Training Methods and Techniques in Techniques for Changing Minds with Subject. Added Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies: Critical Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Psychology of Price to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Power of Presentations: Best Practices For Getting Your Messages to the Masses to Guest articles. Added Organizing for local support and action to Blog!

12-Feb-17

Added Vagueness to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Benefit to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Previous Price to Pricing in Marketing. Added The How of Heart to Guest articles. Added The polarisation of society and a way back to moderation to Blog!

05-Feb-17

Added Uncertainty to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Authority-based Strategies to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Nearby Words to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Discipline of Listening to Guest articles. Added Understanding American Politics: It's Self vs Social, not Haves vs Have nots to Blog!

29-Jan-17

Added Threat to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Your Concern for Me to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Preferred Number Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Fallacy of Making Appointments to Guest articles. Added Self, short-term and stupidity: the unholy persuasive trinity to Blog!

22-Jan-17

Added Sorting and Counting to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Why Not? to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Number Complexity to Pricing in Marketing. Added Meetings: The Purpose, The Pain, The Possibility to Guest articles. Added Outputs, Outcomes and Success in Work and Life to Blog!

15-Jan-17

Added Snowing to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Welfare of Others to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Distance Effects to Pricing in Marketing. Added Practical Decision Making: getting it righter to Guest articles. Added Emotional mugging and exchange moaning to Blog!

08-Jan-17

Added Rapid Fire to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Warning to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The 95 Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail and What is the Meaning of Life? to Guest articles. Added Bringing up your children - a few things I've learned (sometimes the hard way) to Blog!

01-Jan-17

Happy New Year!

25-Dec-16

Happy Christmas!

18-Dec-16

Added Five Persuasion Situations to Articles on Persuasion. Added Questions to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Value Appeal to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Font Effects to Pricing in Marketing. Added How to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking to Guest articles. Added A little Christmas cheer can go a long way to Blog!

11-Dec-16

Added Articles on Conversation to Conversation techniques, with The Conversational Double Bind. Added Poetic to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Threat to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Pay by Instalments to Pricing in Marketing. Added Why Being Helpful Isn’t Just for Nice Guys (and Gals) to Guest articles. Added How to get things done in your community to Blog!

04-Dec-16

Added The Flower Theory of Persuasion to Motivation. Added Novelty to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Thought Manipulation to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Pricing Add-Ons to Pricing in Marketing. Added How CBT tackles the root of thinking and behaviour to Guest articles. Added Identity security and your number plate to Blog!

27-Nov-16

Added Three Type of Arrogance to Relationships. Added Nesting to Creating Cognitive Load. Added This Is the Way Things Are to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Round Numbers to Pricing in Marketing. Added Write Content That Facilitates Buying Decisions to Guest articles. Added Why do rockers treat women with respect? to Blog!

20-Nov-16

Added Saturation to More Persuasion Methods. Added Mystery to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Third Party to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Value of Context to Pricing in Marketing. Added How the Sales Industry Colludes in Failure and The Reward for Risking Public Embarrassment to Guest articles. Added Stepping up to the mark. Can Donald Trump do it? to Blog!

13-Nov-16

Away.

06-Nov-16

Added Language in Belief to Beliefs. Added Have Children to Ways to Happiness. Added Multiplicity to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Surveillance to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Time and Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Inside Curiosity and How to Avoid Being Average to Guest articles. Added We're on the brink of a precipice and might just jump to Blog!

30-Oct-16

Added Effortful Help to Tipping. Added Memorizing to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Suggest to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Contrastive Purchase to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Importance of Learning Body Language for the Younger Generation and Winners Can Be Surprised, but Losers Should Not Be to Guest articles. Added Control, Corruption or Culture, a Common Political Choice to Blog!

23-Oct-16

Added Psychopathy vs Sociopathy to Personality Disorders. Added Incompletion to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Positive Self-Feeling to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Weber's Law to Pricing in Marketing. Added Wells Fargo and Volkswagen: The Cost of Quarterly Capitalism and Why the Need to Build Relationships is a Myth to Guest articles. Added I lost the sense of beauty and then found it again. Here's how. to Blog!

16-Oct-16

Away.

09-Oct-16

Added Opportunity, Temptation and Willpower to Willpower. Added Empowering to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Negative Self-Feeling to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Brand Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Nobility of Business Owners and Listening Biases: How Influencers Unwittingly Restrict Possibilities to Guest articles. Added Why do I get sad when TV series end? to Blog!

02-Oct-16

Added Easy Principle to Persuasion principles. Added Complexity to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Promote Task to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Change Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added I’m Sorry and It Will Happen Again and Asperger's put to work: an essay on coding choice and decision making to Guest articles. Added The polarisation of society and a way back to moderation to Blog!

25-Sep-16

Added The Keys to Success to Self-Development Methods. Added Choice to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Promise to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Easy-Pay Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Cell Phones Are the New Smoking and Control: What does it give you? What do you lose? Where is the real control? to Guest articles. Added A shoe negotiation, and how to turn happy customers into irritated ones to Blog!

18-Sep-16

Added How to be Likeable to How to xx. Added Challenging to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Pre-giving to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Credit Card Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added What is Buying Facilitation(R)? What sales problem does it solve? and Why You Should Be the Odd One Out to Guest articles. Added Collectible pins and the selling of holidays to Blog!

11-Sep-16

Added Calculation to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Positive Affect to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Coinage Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added Sales, Marketing and Social Can Be More Successful: hint - it's not about your content and Two Reasons People Panic at Work and How to Stop Doing That to Guest articles. Added Hopeless, zoos and the down-and-out to Blog!

04-Sep-16

Away.

28-Aug-16

Added Number Rounding to How to Get a Bigger Tip.  Added Background Music to Creating Cognitive Load. Added Personal Expertize to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Comma Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added Buy a Lighted Tractor: Four Business Rules From a Winemaker and How the Sales Industry Colludes in Failure to Guest articles. Added Telling Tales of Woe to Blog!

21-Aug-16

Added Creating Cognitive Load to General Persuasion Techniques, also adding Ambiguity to this. Added Not Seek Compliance to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Sound Duration Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added We Don’t Know How to Hear Each Other: how biases distort our conversations and Do Your Pronouns Reveal You as a Giver, or Taker? to Guest articles. Added Six evolutionary principles to keep your company going forever to Blog!

14-Aug-16

Added Tolerance and Action in Belief to Beliefs. Added Magical Realism to Storytelling articles. Added Negative Affect to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Odd Number Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added 12 Dirty Little Secrets: why buyers don't buy and Is it Coaching, or a Critique? Perspective Changes Everything to Guest articles. Added The need to remember our dark side to Blog!

07-Aug-16

Added Reflective vs. Reactive Thinking to Preferences. Added Charitable and Reciprocal Motivations to Motivation. Added Nature of the Situation to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Discounting to Pricing in Marketing. Added Two Reasons People Panic at Work and How to Stop Doing That and The How of Heart to Guest articles. Added Tanzanite, Ammolite, Korite and the marketing of gemstones to Blog!

31-Jul-16

Away.

24-Jul-16

Away.

17-Jul-16

Away.

10-Jul-16

Away.

03-Jul-16

Added Regret to Emotions. Added Win the Game to Being Right. Added My Concern For You to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Free to Pricing in Marketing. Added DOing vs. BEing: creating rules that put customers first to Guest articles. Added Summarising and Criticising: Critical Skills You May Not Realize You Need to Blog!

26-Jun-16

Added Look Around to Speaking Tips. Added Personal Recommendation to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Moral Appeal to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Unique Number Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Using Follow Up Effectively to Guest articles. Added The UK and Europe: A love-hate relationship to Blog!

19-Jun-16

Away.

12-Jun-16

Added Are You An Honest Person? to Interview Questions. Added Let Go to Ways to Happiness. Added Logical Empirical to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Preferred Number Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added 3 Reasons People Quit That Have Nothing to Do with Money and Overcoming Opposition to Guest articles. Added Designing online trust to Blog!

05-Jun-16

Added Can, Could, Will, Would to Modifying Meaning. Added Seven Quests to Storytelling articles. Added It's Up to You to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Price Length Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Problem With Information to Guest articles. Added Where will Bernie's votes go? The strange, strange US Presidential elections may get stranger still to Blog!

29-May-16

Added Belief, Faith and Commitment to Beliefs. Added Invoke Norm to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The 99 Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added Motivating Talents to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Successful Fundraising: getting chosen over the competition and How to Decode Millennials for Fun and Profit to Guest articles. Added Strange bedfellows: The idealists and the thugs to Blog!

22-May-16

Added Cautious Optimism to Ways to Happiness. Added I Want... to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Price Rounding Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added After Conquering Cities to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added What’s the ROI on Friendship? and The Arrogance of Listening to Guest articles. Added How to be intimidating. Or not. to Blog!

15-May-16

Added Weather Forecast to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Hinting to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Price Boundaries to Pricing in Marketing. Added Fighting Plunderers to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added A Letter for the Special Ones and The What of How: 'Why' and 'What' are inadequate to enable action to Guest articles. Added Who moved my table? Nobody, but I should have! to Blog!

08-May-16

Added Action Requests to Questioning Techniques. Added Positive Expertise to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added First Digit Anchoring to Pricing in Marketing. Added Wet and Dry Weather to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Anatomy of a Lost Sale: Case Study to Guest articles. Added As, Bs and the Secret of a Successful Life to Blog!

01-May-16

Added Avoid Temptation to Ways of Desisting in Willpower. Added Negative Expertise to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Price Anchoring Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added Fighting Marine Battles to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Checklist for Influencers: questions for sellers, coaches, leaders, change agents and How reading is the best way to gain experience for entrepreneurs to Guest articles. Added Free Speech, Dignity and Tolerance to Blog!

24-Apr-16

Added Encourage Drinking to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Positive Esteem From Actor to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Price Expectation to Pricing in Marketing. Added Caught in Valley to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Meet People Where They Are: Galileo’s Epic Fail and Training vs. Learning: do you want to train? Or have someone learn? to Guest articles. Added How do you deal with someone who has a superiority complex? to Blog!

17-Apr-16

Added The Three Faces of Power to Power. Added Negative Esteem From Actor to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Price Reframing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Caught in Unfavourable Terrain to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Making Negotiation Win-Win and Does Your Business Need an Anthropologist? to Guest articles. Added Populism and terrorism: two trends with a common cause to Blog!

10-Apr-16

Added Existentialism to Philosophies of Social Research. Added Positive Esteem from Others to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Pricing and the Investment Effect to Pricing in Marketing. Added When Surrounded by Enemy to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added The Skills of Kindness: a guide for sellers, coaches, leaders and facilitators and Can Business Act As a Moral Compass? to Guest articles. Added The Psychology of Creepiness to Blog!

03-Apr-16

Added Status, Equality and Motivation to Values. Added Negative Esteem from Others to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Price Anchoring to Pricing in Marketing. Added How to Win Against a Strong Enemy to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added The False Choice: Inspiration vs. Accountability and Climb the business success ladder quickly by excelling in your public speaking skills to Guest articles. Added Terrorism, radicalization and the polarizing politics of outrage to Blog!

27-Mar-16

Added Faster Music to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Equity to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Give them a Limited Choice to Pricing in Marketing. Added When Outnumbered by Enemy to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added What People Really Want From Their Boss and Why Pitching, Persuading, Guiding, and Influencing are Largely Unsuccessful to Guest articles. Added The Striving Mentalist to Blog!

20-Mar-16

Added Split Bill to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Duty to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Pricing and Service Charge to Pricing in Marketing. Added Chaos and Communication to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Buying Decisions, Buying Decision Path, Buy Cycles, and Pre-Sales and What is Noble Purpose? to Guest articles. Added The Greatest America? to Blog!

13-Mar-16

Away.

06-Mar-16

Added Encourage Credit Cards to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Disclaimer About Time to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Pricing and Tax to Pricing in Marketing. Added Testing Enemy General to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Our Listening Biases Restrict Success and Unpacking the Seemingly Intangible Qualities of Executive Presence to Guest articles. Added The Power of Populism and Recent Global Politics to Blog!

28-Feb-16

Added Personal Connection to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Disclaimer About Task to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Contrast Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Knowing the Enemy General to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Three Secrets for Increasing Your Happiness by 20% and Five Leadership Mistakes To Avoid to Guest articles. Added Pushed to the Edge: Would you kill someone? to Blog!

21-Feb-16

Added Make Food Emotional to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Disclaimer About Target to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added The Miser and the Spendthrift: Two Very Different Mindsets to Pricing in Marketing. Added Characteristics, Importance of Good Communication to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added The Heart of Sales and Why the Pursuit of Consistency Makes You Irrelevant to Guest articles. Added Status, aspiration and fantasy to Blog!

14-Feb-16

Added Be Clean to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added There Is No Such Thing As Good and Bad to Values. Added Disclaimer About Self to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Zone Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Four Areas to Note, Characteristics of Good General to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added The Power to Get Things Done – Whether You Feel Like It or Not and What Makes A Decision Irrational? to Guest articles. Added Valentine's Day, Love, Hope and Luck to Blog!

07-Feb-16

Added Praise Them to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Avoid Objections to Being Right. Added Disclaimer About Other People to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Transfer Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Management of Troops to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Change is Not the Problem, People Are and How direct mail can be a better option instead of digital marketing methods for your business to Guest articles. Added The terrible effect of bigoteering vigilantism to Blog!

31-Jan-16

On hols.

24-Jan-16

On hols.

17-Jan-16

Added Authority vs Expertize to Similar Words. Added Mind-reading to Being Right. Added Disclaimer About Norms/Rules to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Total Profit Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Maintenance of Horses to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Don’t Tell High Ambition People to Relax and Using Follow Up Effectively to Guest articles. Added Why Has Populism Become So Popular? to Blog!

10-Jan-16

Away.

03-Jan-16

Added Expressing Care to Building Rapport and Trust. Added Direct Request to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Share Price Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Principles of Marching and Stationing to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added A Noble Purpose Workshop Brings Out the Beast, and the Best in People and Confident or hesitant: Which voice do you want your employees to use when speaking to clients? to Guest articles. Added How to Make New Year's Resolutions Stick to Blog!

27-Dec-15

Happy Christmas!

20-Dec-15

Added Anger and Fear to Emotions. Added Deceit to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Real-Time Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Placing Individuals at Appropriate Positions to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Negotiating: What we can learn from the ladies of The Bachelor and 5 Tools For The Business Storyteller to Guest articles. Added Dalai Wisdom to Blog!

13-Dec-15

Added Mind Control to Techniques for Changing Minds. Added Forgiveness to Blame. Added Debt to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added When to Give a Discount to Pricing in Marketing. Added Education and Training of Army to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Know The Important Differences Between Business Storytelling and StoryBranding and Does Money Make People Work Harder? to Guest articles. Added TV advertising, psychological momentum and the inter-show gap to Blog!

06-Dec-15

Added Blamestorming to Blame. Added Debasement to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Rate of Return Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Decisiveness to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Over a Million Eyeballs and They’re Not All Happy to Guest articles. Added Idealism vs. reasonable uncertainty to Blog!

29-Nov-15

Added Customer Emotional Needs to Needs. Added The Open-Closed Lie Detection Method to Lying. Added Criticize to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Private Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Things to Note on Marching Army to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added If you really loved me, you would ... and Finding A Prospect vs. Creating A Prospect to Guest articles. Added Jokes, outrage and moral sensitization to Blog!

22-Nov-15

Added Punishing Language to Blame. Added Cooperation to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Shipping and Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Gain Control of Army to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Steps in a Buying Decision and Beautiful Questions Versus Exhausting Questions to Guest articles. Added Terrorism, radicalization and the polarizing politics of outrage to Blog!

15-Nov-15

On hols.

08-Nov-15

On hols.

01-Nov-15

On hols.

25-Oct-15

Added Know, Do, Feel to More Persuasion Methods. Added Compromise to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Promotional Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Factors on Using Troops to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Everything is not under control: That’s a good thing and Two Cold Call Case Studies: Why Your Cold Calls Aren't Working to Guest articles. Added Tricky words at the Post Office reduces brand loyalty to Blog!

18-Oct-15

Added Persuasion, Inducement and Coercion to Articles on Persuasion. Added Compliment to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Pricing Objective to Pricing in Marketing. Added Weaknesses You Can Attack to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Why Disagreement Is a Very Bad Approach to Any Conversation and Get Your Business Partners and Employees Motivated by Employing Conference Speakers to Guest articles. Added Making every word count: the deep manipulation of 'news' items to Blog!

11-Oct-15

Added Power and Consequence to Power. Added Challenge to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Value Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Detecting Enemy Situation to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Why do we gather information from buyers? and Who is That Mystery Shopper? Part 1 to Guest articles. Added Persuading at the edge of provocation to Blog!

04-Oct-15

Added Benefit for You to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Target Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Enemy You Cannot Attack to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Training Mystery Shoppers Part 2 and Steps Along the Buying Decision Path to Guest articles. Added Welfare, housing and unexpected surprises to Blog!

27-Sep-15

Added Benefit for Me to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Signal Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Enemy You Can Attack to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Do You Have a Grand Challenge? and Training Mystery Shoppers Part 1 to Guest articles. Added The power of television and control of a country to Blog!

20-Sep-15

Added Benefit for Others to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Price Skimming to Pricing in Marketing. Added Providing Opportunities for Talents to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Why People Don’t Say What Needs to Be Said and Why Do We Listen To Each Another? to Guest articles. Added The 'Next Village Effect' and 'thinking makes it so' to Blog!

13-Sep-15

Added Bargaining to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Price-point Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Six States Characteristics to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Pre-decision making: How to Make Better Decisions Under Stress and We Close Only The Low Hanging Fruit to Guest articles. Added Red for Sexiness to Blog!

06-Sep-15

Added Smile at Your Audience to Speaking Tips. Added Aversive Stimulation to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Price Bracketing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Nation Alertness to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added 7 ways virtual reality can help in conquering public speaking phobia, Is it Okay to Cry at Work? and How Do Buyers Choose One Solution Over Another? to Guest articles. Added The power of emotional punctuation to Blog!

30-Aug-15

Added Authority Appeal to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Price Elasticity to Pricing in Marketing. Added The ILO Basic Needs to Needs. Added Importance of Seeking Talents to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Corporate Gifts are an Important Tool in the Marketing Communication Mix and The Big Problem with Optimists to Guest articles. Added Clean hands, clean mind to Blog!

23-Aug-15

Away.

16-Aug-15

Added Off the Record to Negotiation Tactics. Added Sirota's Three-Factor Theory of Employee Motivation to Needs. Added Audience-Use to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Premium Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Strength in Offense and Defense to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added How to Use Effective Communication to Improve Social Skills, The Moment I Decided I Was in Love with Capitalism and Training vs. Learning: do you want to train? Or have someone learn? to Guest articles. Added Pythagoras' hammers and the harmony trap to Blog!

09-Aug-15

Added The Essence of Success to Self-Development Methods. Added Sen's Capability Approach to Needs. Added Assertion to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Optional Extra Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Managing Troops Selecting Talents Strengthening Nation to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Three Things That Will Endear You to Your Family and Friends and Sellers Ask the Wrong Questions to Guest articles. Added The cafe chair problem to Blog!

02-Aug-15

Away.

26-Jul-15

Added Coming Clean to Negotiation Tactics. Added Altruism to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Lifetime Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Reasons for War and its Counter Strategy to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added What Should Coaches Be Listening For? and Lose the Drama, Take the Coaching to Guest articles. Added Seventeen rules for being a good husband and keeping your wife happy to Blog!

19-Jul-15

Added Challenge Cause to Negotiation Tactics. Added Positive Altercasting to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Competitor Index Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Narayan's Voices of the Poor to Needs. Added Running the State and Victory to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Fears and Facts about Public Speaking in Business, 5 Steps for Creating a Noble Purpose Organization and Prospects Aren't Always Prospects to Guest articles. Added The curiously profitable cat on the post to Blog!

12-Jul-15

Added Negative Altercasting to Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies. Added Captive Product Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Schwartz's Universal Values to Needs. Added Unity and People's Support to Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare. Added Latest negotiation tactic to secure an imperative business deal, Find Grace in the Moment and Do you want to sell? Or have someone buy? (Part 2) to Guest articles. Added Good cop, bad cop and faltering radical change to Blog!

05-Jul-15

Started Kellerman and Cole's 64 Compliance-gaining Strategies in General Persuasion Techniques with Actor Takes Responsibility. Added Bundle Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Ryan and Deci's Three Intrinsic Needs to Needs. Started Wu Zi's Art of War in Warfare with Need for Strengthening Domestic and External Issues. Added 5 Secret Tips for Invulnerable Business Negotiations, What the Big Airplane Decision Reveals About Your Job and Resistance to Guidance: Why Sales, Coaching, and Leadership Practices Falter to Guest articles. Added What do you say to a grieving person? to Blog!

28-Jun-15

Added Berne's Formula G to Games. Added Odd One Out to Negotiation tactics. Added Predatory Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Rawl's Primary Goods to Needs. Added The Infantry in Battle to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Three Marketing Tips From the Two best Panhandlers in Vegas and Get the Yes: Winning Funding, RFPs, and Grants to Guest articles. Added Kings, mobsters, celebrities and superheroes to Blog!

21-Jun-15

Added Make Them Grateful to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Disruption to Negotiation tactics. Added Profit Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Lawrence and Nohria's Employee Motivation to Needs. Added Cavalry in Battle to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Don’t Be the One Who Waits for the Safe Space and Content Marketing that Converts to Guest articles. Added When do the parts become the whole? to Blog!

14-Jun-15

Added What If to Negotiation tactics. Added Pinocchio's Problem to Lying. Added Penetration Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Cummins' Quality of Life domains to Needs. Added Battle Chariots to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added The Power of Influence, What’s the Matter with Work? and Meetings: The Purpose, The Pain, The Possibility to Guest articles. Added Failure and success in small businesses to Blog!

07-Jun-15

Added Keep Them Hungry and Thirsty to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added The Black Art of Pricing to Marketing. Added Ramsay's Six Universal Psychological Needs to Needs. Added Martial Cavalry Warriors to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Our Black Ancestry: A Personal Story and What Makes A Decision Irrational? to Guest articles. Added Are you a cat person or a dog person? to Blog!

31-May-15

Added Power and Dependency to Power. Added Be a Victim to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Superficial Conversation to Types of Conversation. Added Old-product Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Pink's Three Motivators to Needs. Added Martial Chariot Warriors to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added How to Solve the I Hate My Job Problem and Miscommunication: The Reasons, The Cure, The Prevention to Guest articles. Added The power of the 'Yes' option to Blog!

24-May-15

Added Look Good to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Blameless Conversation to Types of Conversation. Added Multi-brand Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Six Dimensions of Well-Being to Needs. Added Equivalent Forces to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why Your Backstory Matters: The case of the boring accountant and Boredom: A Route To Creativity to Guest articles. Added Haydn's musical persuasion to Blog! Added Review: Aurora: Volume 1 (All Worlds Unseen), by N.W. Twyford to Book reviews.

17-May-15

Added Authentic Conversation to Types of Conversation. Added Eleri's Rules for Teachers to Teaching articles. Added Market Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Braybrooke's Needs to Needs. Added Teaching Combat to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added How Would a Five-Year-Old Evaluate Your Airtime? and We Don't Really Hear Each Other to Guest articles. Added Politics and Persuasion in the UK General Election to Blog!

10-May-15

Travelling - away.

03-May-15

Added Stress at Work to Stress. Added Loss-leader Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Nussbaum's Ten Central Human Functional Capabilities to Needs. Added Selecting Warriors to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Guilty Volunteer Please Put Your Hand Down and Do You Want to Sell? Or Have Someone Buy? (part 1) to Guest articles. Added Failure and success in small businesses to Blog!

26-Apr-15

Added Eleri's advice to Teaching articles. Added Evolutionary Games to Evolution. Added Growth Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Harm in CIA Needs to Needs. Added Military Vanguard to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Making Negotiation Win-Win and Why Business is a Force for Good, Yes Really to Guest articles. Added Epidemiology, Disease and Crime to Blog!

19-Apr-15

Added Marwell and Schmitt's Compliance-gaining Strategies to Overall Persuasion Methods. Added Survival of the Fittest vs. Survival of the Species to Evolution. Added Fixed Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Finnis' Seven Basic Reasons for Action to Needs. Added Dispersing and Assembling to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Are You a Boiled Frog? Or an Evolved Human? and Trait-centered Leadership vs. Servant Leadership to Guest articles. Added Wanted: people with a phone like yours. Just click here. to Blog!

12-Apr-15

Added Temptation Bundling to Ways of Persisting in Willpower. Added Pre-excusing to Being Right. Added Expectation Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Need for Touch to Needs. Added Divided Valleys to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Questions: The Problems and the Possibilities and Leadership Lessons from Monica Lewinsky to Guest articles. Added The bell and the cry to Blog!

05-Apr-15

Added The Psychology of Height to Articles on Perception. Added Discountable Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Need to Sense to Needs. Added The Few and the Many to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why Carrot-and-Stick Motivation No Longer Works and Using Buyer Personas During Pre-Sales Stages to Guest articles. Added Review: Nothing But The Truth, by Maryann Karinch to Book reviews. Added The Puzzle of Free Speech, Insult and Harm to Blog!

29-Mar-15

On holiday.

22-Mar-15

Added Unconditional Concessions to Negotiation Mistakes. Added The Provocative Rider to Questioning Techniques. Added Cost-Plus Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added The 4S Needs Net to Needs. Added Crow and Cloud Formation in the Marshes to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Speaker or Listener: Who's At Fault? and How a Slight Tweak in Words Changes Your Entire Organization to Guest articles. Added Rejection-and-retreat in action to Blog!

15-Mar-15

Added The Evolutionary Ruleset to Evolution. Added Romance Conversations to Types of Conversation. Added Confusion Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Need for Autonomy to Needs. Added Crow and Cloud Formation in the Mountains to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Motivation Is An Inside Job and Is Your Job Just a Job? to Guest articles. Added Frat House Psychology to Blog!

08-Mar-15

Added In-Your-Face to More Persuasion Methods. Added Bonding Conversations to Types of Conversation. Added Competitive Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Need for Approval to Needs. Added Martial Enemy to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added The Unpacking Technique and The Mental Shortcut That Dumbs Down Your Mind to Guest articles. Added Displaced anger and control freakery to Blog!

01-Mar-15

Added The Eight Point Story Arc to Story Plots. Added Status Conversations to Types of Conversation. Added Brand Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Acknowledgement to Needs. Added Strong Enemy to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why Culture Matters More Than Goals and Diversity And Bias: How to Hear ‘Different’ People Differently to Guest articles. Added Exaggeration and the power of satire to Blog!

22-Feb-15

Added the entire book How to Invent (Almost) Anything to Creating Minds. 219 pages. Now all free for you. Phew!

15-Feb-15

Added Adaptive Beliefs to Beliefs. Added Dialog and The Five Ds of Conversation to Types of Conversation. Added Bounded Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Mackay's Ten Social Desires to Needs. Added Explosive Warfare to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Are Errors of Apathy Eroding Your Organization? and Avoiding Resistance or Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail to Guest articles. Added What's the point of 'What's the point?' to Blog!

08-Feb-15

Added Over-accusing to Interrogation. Added Deliberation to Types of Conversation. Added Benefit Pricing to Pricing in Marketing. Added Rock's SCARF Social Needs to Needs. Added Forest Warfare to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why it’s Worth Learning to Manage Your Face and Getting To Agreement to Guest articles. Added Guarding the royal potato. Or not to Blog!

01-Feb-15

Added Discussion to Types of Conversation. Added The Price-Quality Graph and the Fair-Value Line to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Need to Work to Needs. Added Empty Fortifications to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Media's Unnatural Selection, Assumptions: Why Being Right Is Wrong and The Horrible Awful Thing That is Wrong with Schools to Guest articles. Added Choice blindness and the taste test to Blog!

25-Jan-15

Added Overstaying Your Welcome to Conversational Traps. Added Debate to Types of Conversation. Added Price-Promotion Strategies to Pricing in Marketing. Added The Need for Superiority to Needs. Added Incendiary Warfare to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why Doing the Right Thing Makes You Money, If You Go First and Time Management Skills in Sales Part 2 to Guest articles. Added Us, them and non-violent extremism to Blog!

18-Jan-15

Started Types of Conversation in Conversation techniques with Dictation. Added Style vs. Substance to Preferences. Added The Price Triangle to Pricing in Marketing. Added Self-esteem to Needs. Added Occupying Enemy Territory to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why Metrics Drive Mediocrity and The Pomodoro Technique -- The Ultimate Task Ender to Guest articles. Added Teaching Geniuses to Blog!

11-Jan-15

Added Interviewer Bias to Selection. Added The Chemistry of Stress to Stress. Added Customer Price Thinking to Pricing in Marketing. Added Justice to Needs. Added Severed Routes to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Three Types of People That Will Make You Happier and The Business of Kindness to Guest articles. Added Males, mates, aggression and war to Blog!

04-Jan-15

Started Pricing in Marketing with Pricing Research. Added The Focus Vector Model to Preferences. Added Attention in Conversation to Attention. Added The Need for Proof to Needs. Added Gongs and Drums to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why the Arc of the Universe Bends Towards Better and Time Management Skills in Sales Part 1 to Guest articles. Added Persuasive contexts (how things around you change your mind, without you noticing) to Blog!

28-Dec-14

On holiday.

21-Dec-14

Added Dianetic Energy Levels to Emotions. Added Four Ways of Simplifying Work to Articles About Change. Added Attention in Conversation to Attention. Added The Need to Learn to Needs. Added Movement and Rest to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why the Story of Your Job Becomes the Story of Your Life and "Sounds Like You have a Great Company. Now if Only I Could Understand What You Do" to Guest articles. Added An American Christmas in Britain to Blog!

14-Dec-14

Added Altercasting to More persuasion methods. Added Milieu Control to Propaganda. Added Color and Attention to Attention. Added For Help to Needs. Added Approaching the Border to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Three Big Mistakes That Ruin Good Projects and Think and Reach 'Outside the Box' to Guest articles. Added Get famous -- do yourself an index to Blog!

07-Dec-14

Added Four Persuasion Styles to Overall Persuasion Methods. Added The Experience of Emotion in the Body to Emotions. Added Evolution and Attention to Attention. Added The Need to Help to Needs. Added Planning for the Army to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Three Ways to Keep the Quest for the Best from Shortchanging Happiness and What, exactly, is a Relationship Manager? to Guest articles. Added No Pies in the Truck to Blog!

30-Nov-14

Added Emotions Analytics Types to Evolution. Added Chronic Stress to Stress. Added Delayed Ending to Attention. Added Equality to Needs. Added Certain Escape to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added How to Leverage Intuition in Decision-making and The Importance of Brainstorming to Guest articles. Added Discount or money? to Blog!

23-Nov-14

Added Acute Stress to Stress. Added In-game Purchase to Games Articles. Added Interruption and Attention to Attention. Added The Need for Contentment to Needs. Added Urgent Battles to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added How Sales, Marketing and Social Can Facilitate the Decision Path and What Does your Internal Talk Track Reveal About You? to Guest articles. Added Good, evil and lorem ipsum to Blog!

16-Nov-14

Added Relationship Marketing to Marketing Strategy. Added Three As of Simple Persuasion to Articles on Persuasion. Added Future Reward to Attention. Added The Need for Attention to Needs. Added Three Deployments to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added The Real Reason Monster’s CEO Lost His Job and Is your company creative or innovative? to Guest articles. Added The good guys and the bad guys: birds of a feather? to Blog!

09-Nov-14

Added Believe You Can to How to Increase Your Willpower. Added The Trustee's Choice to Trust. Added Prod Their Motivators to Attention. Added The Need to Be Right to Needs. Added The Army's Equipment to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added The Table of Brotherhood Actually Happened At a Burger Joint and Help Buyers Buy: Facilitate The Buy Path, Then Sell to Guest articles. Added Over-believing, closure and the dangers of visualization to Blog!

02-Nov-14

Added Walk Jauntily to Ways to Happiness. Added The Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model to Propaganda. Added Attention and Emotion to Attention. Added Achievement to Needs. Added Agricultural Implements to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why the “My Job is Harder” Fight isn’t a Battle You Want to Win and The Evolution of Sales Part 6 to Guest articles. Added I have studied myself cynical to Blog!

26-Oct-14

Added Sockpuppeting to Propaganda. Added Seven Persuasion Styles to Articles on Persuasion. Added What is Attention? to Attention. Added Transcendence to Needs. Added The Army's Indications to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added How Volunteering For Your Boss Changes Your Trajectory and The Evolution of Sales Part 5 to Guest articles. Added Listen to the conscientiousness of the handshake (if you're a male interviewer) to Blog!

19-Oct-14

Added Astroturfing to Propaganda. Added Reversal Tagging to Being Right. Added Engagement to Attention. Added Survival to Needs. Added The Five Notes to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why We Get Frantic, Then Burnout and The Evolution of Sales Part 4 to Guest articles. Added Better than sex to Blog!

12-Oct-14

Added Five Levels of Competitiveness to Games Articles. Added Backwards Reasoning to Types of Reasoning. Added Attention and Time to Attention. Added Success to Needs. Added The Unorthodox Army to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added The Evolution of Sales Part 3 and Why Beauty Matters at Work, And Not in the Way You Might Think to Guest articles. Added How Losing Can Help You Win to Blog!

05-Oct-14

Added Marks' Five Ways to Well-Being to Happiness. Added Freedom and Fairness to Articles on politics. Added Attention and Moving to Attention. Added Self-Knowledge to Needs. Added The Army's Strategic Power to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added The Evolution of Sales Part 2 and Why Employees Just Don’t Care, and What the Boss Can Do About It to Guest articles. Added Feng Shui, curves and good-enough explanations to Blog!

28-Sep-14

Added Reductio ad Absurdum to Fallacies. Added Explicit Memory to Memory. Added Help Them Complete Their Work to Attention. Added Revenge to Needs. Added Secret Letters to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added The Evolution of Sales Part 1 and The Biggest Difference between Success and Mediocrity for Teachers and Leaders to Guest articles. Added Intelligent Design, the Reversal Trap and Persuasion to Blog!

21-Sep-14

Added Schwartz Culture Model to Culture. Added Implicit Memory to Memory. Added Chunks and Attention to Attention. Added Respect to Needs. Added Secret Tallies to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added The Real Driver of Great Innovation via Alexander Graham Bell and Pharrell Williams and Decision Makers vs. Influencers to Guest articles. Added How women choose a mate to Blog!

14-Sep-14

Added Peer Pressure Principle to Persuasion principles. Added Negotiation Roles to Negotiation articles. Added Attention and Taking Breaks to Attention. Added Recognition to Needs. Added Encouraging the Army to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Negotiation tricks from top salesmen, Why We Wait, Before Giving It Our Best and Are Customers' Complaints Addressed Effectively? to Guest articles. Added Big Ideas to Blog!

07-Sep-14

Added Rules to Values. Added Outrage to Emotions. Added Factors Underlying Cialdini's Six Principles to Cialdini's Six Principles of Influence. Added Emphasis and Attention to Attention. Added Reason to Needs. Added The General's Awesomeness to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Managing Customer Expectations and Why Customer Service People Still Give Terrible Customer Service to Guest articles. Added The Father of the Bride to Blog!

31-Aug-14

Working on making site mobile-friendly.

24-Aug-14

Working on making site mobile-friendly.

17-Aug-14

Working on making site mobile-friendly.

10-Aug-14

Working on making site mobile-friendly.

03-Aug-14

Added Fear and Greed to Emotions. Added Click, Whirr to Cialdini's Six Principles of Influence. Added Incompleteness and Attention to Attention. Added Purpose to Needs. Added Appointing the General to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added How to communicate change and get leaders to drive it, Why Words Matter and How to Choose the Right Ones and Sales is a Flawed Model to Guest articles. Added Ground rush, buffers, exceptions and weddings to Blog!

27-Jul-14

Added Agree and Amplify to More persuasion methods. Added Scarcity to Cialdini's Six Principles of Influence. Added Confusion and Attention to Attention. Added Prosperity to Needs. Added Selecting Generals to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why The GM “Don’t Blame Me” Problem Really Happened, Steps Along The Buying Decision Path and Strengthen Your Career Commitment to Guest articles. Added In search of the perfect phone to Blog!

20-Jul-14

Added Prime and Prompt to More persuasion methods. Added Authority to Cialdini's Six Principles of Influence. Added Sensitivity and Attention to Attention. Added Power to Needs. Added A Discussion of Generals to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added The Grim Satisfaction of the Subtle Skeptic, Change your Mind and You Will Change Your Life and Showing Your Appreciation to Customers to Guest articles. Added The Conformance-Consulting Dilemma to Blog!

13-Jul-14

Added Three Human Drivers to Motivation. Added Liking to Cialdini's Six Principles of Influence. Added Novelty and Attention to Attention. Added Play to Needs. Added The King's Wings to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why Giving Everyone a Trophy Sets Us Up for Failure at Work, and Life, Seize the Opportunity and Managing Yourself When Dealing With Unhappy Customer to Guest articles. Added The winkler's dilemma to Blog!

06-Jul-14

Added Manage Your Boundaries to Stress Management. Added Priming principle to Persuasion principles. Added Social Proof to Cialdini's Six Principles of Influence. Added Size to Attention. Added Participation to Needs. Added Three Doubts to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Transitional Objects in An Early Childhood Classroom, The Big Mistake People Make About Noble Purpose and Sales Opportunities in Police Headquarters, in Divorce Proceedings Part 2 to Guest articles. Added The weirdly level playing field of social media to Blog!

29-Jun-14

Added Bond and Bend to More persuasion methods. Added Consistency and Commitment to Cialdini's Six Principles of Influence. Added Beauty to Attention. Added Nurture to Needs. Added Instructions on According with the People to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Sales Opportunities in Police Headquarters, in Divorce Proceedings Part 1, How to Get Your Story Told in the Press! and Prospects Aren't Always Prospects to Guest articles. Added Deadly language to Blog!

22-Jun-14

Added Conformance Principle to Persuasion principles. Started Cialdini's Six Principles of Influence in General persuasion techniques with Reciprocity. Added The Competition Principle to Principles of Game Design. Added Movement to Attention. Added Mate to Needs. Added Civil Offensive to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Everyone Leads, Sale's Critical Step: The Close and Two Stupid Time Sucks That Shouldn’t Be Happening to Guest articles. Added About thinking about thinking about... to Blog!

15-Jun-14

Added Pleading principle to Persuasion principles. Added The Learnability Principle to Principles of Game Design. Added Proximity to Attention. Added Imagine to Needs. Added Trustworthy Body Language to Using Body Language and How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Civil Instructions  to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why We Trust Strangers More than Our Friends, What to expect from a keynote speaker and Effective LISTENING Skills to Guest articles. Added A rather intense night at the opera to Blog!

08-Jun-14

On holiday.

01-Jun-14

Added The Reward Principle to Principles of Game Design. Added Incongruity to Attention. Added Hide to Needs. Added Spend Time Together to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Opening Instructions to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Incremental Changes now result in Major Changes Later, How to Apply Lean Development Principles to Sales and Sacrificing Love of Learning on the Altar of Memorization to Guest articles. Added The corrosion of fear, the corruption of greed to Blog!

25-May-14

Added Two Critical Dimensions of Job Finding to Job Finding. Added The Balance Principle to Principles of Game Design. Added Occupied Mind to Attention. Added Growth to Needs. Added Trust Them to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added The Tao of Military to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why We Wish Away Happiness, What is a sales ‘thought leader’? and You will Always Find 2 Types of People to Guest articles. Added Touching underwear, risks and money to Blog!

18-May-14

Added The Possession Principle to Principles of Game Design. Added No Distractions to Attention. Added God to Needs. Added Share Secrets to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Rewards and Punishment to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added The Myth of “The One Thing” And Why Three Is Better, 9 Twitter Business Lessons From Tennis Pros and Sales Commandment 10: Look Beyond Your Own Back Yard to Guest articles. Added Brand collision to Blog!

11-May-14

Added The Status Principle to Principles of Game Design. Added Fewer Choices to Attention. Added Friendship to Needs. Added Keep Secrets to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Advancing the Worthy to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added From Insight to Outsight, What To Do When Your Friend’s Father Dies, And Other Life Crises and Sales Commandment 9: Take a Risk, Be Bold to Guest articles. Added The power of other people to Blog!

04-May-14

Added The Progression Principle to Principles of Game Design. Added Opportunity to Attention. Added Evaluate to Needs. Added Keep Secrets to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Honoring the Worthy to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Professional Introduction In Customer Service, Sales Commandment 8: Be Positive--or Else, 5 cautions in hiring a keynote speaker: how to recognize excellence and The Big Mistake People Make When They Negotiate to Guest articles. Added Managing boundaries and drawing the line to Blog!

27-Apr-14

Added The Camaraderie Principle to Principles of Game Design. Added Threat to Attention. Added Express Emotion to Needs. Added Be Confident to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Preserving the State to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why I Taught My Daughters How To Be Ambassadors in the 5th Grade, How do you buy? Steps in a buying decision and Sales Commandment 7: Market Yourself Creatively to Guest articles. Added Discount vouchers and free draws to Blog!

20-Apr-14

Started Principles of Game Design in Game Design with The Economy Principle. Added Focus to Attention. Added Experience to Needs. Added Demonstrate Power and Kindness to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Preserving the State's Territory to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added The Airplane Experiment: Role reversal gone awry, Sales Commandment 6: Answer Your Phone; Be There, Do Not STEREOTYPE Your Customers and Cross-cultural Communication and Leadership to Guest articles. Added Negative online reviews: the surprising effects to Blog!

13-Apr-14

On holiday.

06-Apr-14

On holiday.

30-Mar-14

On holiday.

23-Mar-14

On holiday.

16-Mar-14

Added The Lewis Culture Model to Culture. Started Attention in Perception with Contrast. Added Destroy to Needs. Added Appear Vulnerable to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Six Preservations to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Maybe There’s More than One “Right” Way, Why You Need To Engage Emotions To Change Minds, The Big Question That Changes Everything and Overcome Inferiority Complex to Guest articles. Added Thinking about death to Blog!

09-Mar-14

Added The Meta-Volition Change Process to Articles About Change. Added Youth Bias to Academic Theories. Added The Need to Defend to Needs. Added Seem Harmless to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Clear Instructions to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why Trying To Make Your Children Happy Makes Everyone Miserable, Seven Tips to Improve your Safety Communication and Sales Commandment 5: Accessibility is Key to Guest articles. Added The Value of Time to Blog!

02-Mar-14

Added Emotions and Light to Emotions. Added Sell More to How to Get a Bigger Tip. Added Create to Needs. Added Be Like People They Trust to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Boasting to Status Games. Added The Great Forms of Etiquette to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Assumptions Derail Communication and 100% ATTITUDE In Customer Service to Guest articles. Added Mindfulness and sunk costs to Blog!

23-Feb-14

Added Contribute to Needs. Added Be Like Them to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added One Upmanship to Status Games. Added Affairs of State to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Why Happy Families Require 12 Great Relationships (or Maybe 11), Sales Commandment 4: Plan for a Crisis (and everything else), Assessment: How much do you suck at listening? and Say "NO" to Your Feelings to Guest articles. Added Inspirational Messages and Rants to Blog!

16-Feb-14

Added Butterfly Logic to Types of Reasoning. Added Connect to Needs. Added Be Friendly to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Equals to Status Games. Added Fullness and Emptiness to The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare. Added Innovation A Key Transformation For Entrepreneurs, Social Skills and Wellbeing at Work, The Surprising Thing about People That Shouldn’t Be Surprising and How Comfortable Are You with Touch? to Guest articles. Added Lesson Plans that Work to Blog!

09-Feb-14

Added Confidence to Needs. Added Help Others to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Playing Inferior to Status Games. Added Conspiracy and Religion to Conspiracy Theories. Started The Six Secret Teachings in Warfare with King Wen's Teacher. Added Successful Entrepreneurs-Taking Risks When It Matters, Sales Commandment 3: Make it About the Customer, Are You Fooling Yourself? and Three Ways to Deal with the Poison Person to Guest articles. Added Pretend to sleep: it's good for you! to Blog!

02-Feb-14

Added Comfort to Needs. Added Do No Harm to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Demonstrating Power to Status Games. Added Challenge Priorities to Being Right. Added Get it right: Shift the sales and marketing focus to the buy side, Sales Commandment 2: Be a Cheerleader For Your Product/Service and Managing the Monkeys in the Middle of Management to Guest articles. Added Inertialessness to Blog!

26-Jan-14

Added Round and Around to Use of Language. Added Collect to Needs. Added Be Predictable to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Criticism to Status Games. Added Change the Rules to Being Right. Added Run Away to The 36 Stratagems. Added Why Intentions Are More Fun Than Resolutions, Sales Commandment 1: Don't Leave Home Without Your Passion and Information is the Problem. What's the Solution? to Guest articles. Added Beautiful Adverts to Blog!

19-Jan-14

Added The Need for Belief to Needs. Added Keep Your Promises to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Gossip to Status Games. Added Criticize Research to Being Right. Added Chain Together the Enemy's Warships to The 36 Stratagems. Added How to get over Facebook Envy, The Nine Commandments of Sales Success and I Don’t “Get” You to Guest articles. Added Signal to Noise to Blog!

12-Jan-14

Added Avoidance to Needs. Added Obey Rules to How Can I Get People to Trust Me?. Added Power Displays to Status Games. Added Use Fallacies to Being Right. Added Inflict Injury on Onself in Order to Win the Enemy's Trust to The 36 Stratagems. Added Show and Tell, Communicate! How to Be Specific in Describing Your Services and Requirements of a Sales Superstar to Guest articles. Added How to make a video go viral to Blog!

05-Jan-14

Added The Leadership Vacuum to Leadership articles. Started How Can I Get People to Trust Me? in Trust with Be Honest. Added Status Negotiation to Status Games. Added Strategic Forgetting to Being Right. Added Let the Enemy's Own Spies Sow Discord in the Enemy Camp to The 36 Stratagems. Added Move from What and How to Why, Relationships are Key Part 2 and Social Studies 101: Get schooled on getting help with social media to Guest articles. Added Passion and antipassion to Blog!

29-Dec-13

On holiday.

22-Dec-13

Added Laughter Interrupt to Interrupting. Added Affection to Needs. Added Proving Worthiness to Status Games. Added What Men and Women Want to Evolution. Added Sow Seeds of Doubt to Being Right. Added Fling Open the Gates to the Empty City to The 36 Stratagems. Added It’s Just a Little White Lie…, Relationships are Key Part 1 and Personalizing Your Company to Guest articles. Added The Flight of Time to Blog!

15-Dec-13

Started Status Games in Relationships with Basic Status Game. Added Stress and Coping to Coping Mechanisms. Added Real Conspiracies to Conspiracy Theories. Added Reframe Criteria to Being Right. Added Use a Woman to Ensnare a Man to The 36 Stratagems. Added Raise the Sales Bar, iContact vs. Eye Contact: The PR Value of Networking and Go Ahead – Ask! to Guest articles. Added What is 'easy'? to Blog!

08-Dec-13

Added The Power Driver Method to More persuasion methods. Added Daydream Believer to Ways to Happiness. Added Real Conspiracies to Conspiracy Theories. Added Progressive Guesswork to Being Right. Added Make the Host and the Guest Exchange Places to The 36 Stratagems. Added Right and Wrong: Teaching Your Child About Morals, Are Your Greatest Strengths Holding You Back?, It’s Not about You and Qualities of a Sales Superstar to Guest articles. Added All day breakfast to Blog!

01-Dec-13

Added Five Dimensions of Emotion to Emotions. Added A Structured Method for Developing a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) to Sales articles. Added The Value of Conspiracy Theories to Conspiracy Theories. Added The Mystic Fog to Being Right. Added Deck the Tree with Bogus Blossoms to The 36 Stratagems. Added Nobody Feels Confident the First Time They Try a Backflip, What To Do When You Get Tongue-Tied and Plan for the Long-term to Guest articles. Added Christmas Adverts to Blog!

24-Nov-13

Added Arousal and Addiction to Addiction. Added Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) to Sales Articles. Added The Psychology of the Conspiracy Theorist to Conspiracy Theories. Added Misquote Research to Being Right. Added Pull Down the Ladder After the Ascent to The 36 Stratagems. Added Persistence Enables Unexpected Growth Part 3, Talk is Cheap and How to Make Firing Someone Less Awful, for Both of You to Guest articles. Added Apology and trust to Blog!

17-Nov-13

Added Three Types of Persuasion to Articles on Persuasion. Added The Arousal Rollercoaster to Emotions. Added How to Build a Conspiracy Theory to Conspiracy Theories. Added Be Mostly Right to Being Right. Added Play Dumb While Remaining Smart to The 36 Stratagems. Added Persistence Enables Unexpected Growth Part 2, Why Compromise Is A Flawed Model and Powerful PR: Be a Great Storyteller! to Guest articles. Added How about that, then to Blog!

10-Nov-13

Added Common Fears to Emotions. Added Why Do We Play Games? to Games Articles. Added Principles of Conspiracy Theories to Conspiracy Theories. Added Ignore Objections to Being Right. Added Point at the Mulberry and Curse the Locust to The 36 Stratagems. Added Maximize Your Distraction: 3 Criteria for Wasting Time on the Web, Persistence Enables Unexpected Growth Part 1 and Everyone Sells to Guest articles. Added Culture, Courage and Whistleblowers to Blog!

03-Nov-13

Added Give and Take to Relationships. Added CNVC Needs Inventory to Needs. Added Five Motivations for Conspiracies to Conspiracy Theories. Added Predict Future Rightness to Being Right. Added Replace the Beams and Pillars with Rotten Timber to The 36 Stratagems. Added Do You Have I Trouble?, Never Underestimate Self-motivation and Three Situations That Call For a Red Team to Guest articles. Added Smile and survive to Blog!

27-Oct-13

Added 5 Cs of Body Language to Using Body Language. Added Berrien's Persuasion Tools Model to Articles on persuasion. Added Types of Conspiracy to Conspiracy Theories. Added Creating Truth to Being Right. Added Obtain Safe Passage to Conquer the Kingdom of Guo to The 36 Stratagems. Added Insight Selling - What is insight, and why do it?, What Language Are You Speaking?, Never Criticize Your Competitors and How to Close the Passion Gap: 3 Ways to Infuse Purpose to Guest articles. Added The Garden of Words to Blog!

20-Oct-13

Added The Challenge Interrupt to Interrupting. Added Needs: Independent, Grouped, Hierarchy or Network? to Needs. Added Conspiracy Theories to Techniques for Changing Minds, starting with Conspiring Organisations. Added Ambiguous Statements to Being Right. Added Befriend a Distant State While Attacking a Neighbor to The 36 Stratagems. Added There Are Two Ways to Light a Fire, Insight Selling: Challenger Sale or Fail?, Necessary Skills of Sales Part 6 and Why Redundant Paperwork is Ruining Everything to Guest articles. Added Weird old tips to Blog!

13-Oct-13

Started Being Right in General persuasion techniques with Assert Rightness. Added Flip a Coin to Negotiation Tactics. Added Deciding to Persuade to Articles on Persuasion. Added Postmodernism and Truth to Critical theory concepts. Added Shut The Door to Catch the Thief to The 36 Stratagems. Added The Social Aspect of Intelligence, The Hidden Cause of the Congressional Stalemate and Logic + Emotion = a Compelling Case to Guest articles. Added The Business Dinner to Blog!

06-Oct-13

On holiday.

29-Sep-13

Added The Polarization of Truth to Decisions. Added Compulsion, Obsession and Addiction to Motivation. Added Three Ingredients of Happiness to Happiness. Added Silent Supporter to Interrogation. Added Slough Off the Cicada's Shell to The 36 Stratagems. Added Open Up!Why Trying To Be Liked Is the Death Knell for Happiness and Success and Necessary Skills of Sales Part 5 to Guest articles. Added Line breaks and holding attention to Blog!

22-Sep-13

Added The Need to Possess to Needs. Added Erosion to Principles of War. Added Distancing to Coping Mechanisms. Added Unique, Selling and Proposition to Sales articles. Added Fish in Troubled Waters to The 36 Stratagems. Added Review: Selling With Noble Purpose, by Lisa Earle McLeod to Book reviews. Added From Insight to Outsight, Necessary Skills of Sales Part 4 and The Power of Persistence and Determination to Guest articles. Added How to remember 60,000 words to Blog!

15-Sep-13

Added Pressing Buttons to More persuasion methods. Added Emotion and Investment to Emotions. Added Make Plans to Ways to Happiness. Added Staging the Outside of the House to Home Staging. Added Remove the Firewood from Under the Cauldron to The 36 Stratagems. Added Necessary Skills of Sales Part 3, A Difference of Opinion and Social Self: Self-presentation in the era of the Internet to Guest articles. Added Email spam and subject titles to Blog!

08-Sep-13

Added Take a Break to Negotiation Tactics. Added Rights vs Duties to Preferences. Added The Need for Home to Needs. Added Staging the Front of the House to Home Staging. Added Capture the Ringleader to Catch the Bandits to The 36 Stratagems. Added Maybe There is More than One Right Way, Necessary Skills of Sales Part 2 and Resume Writing Resources and Tips: Leveraging Keywords to Get Your Resume the Attention it Deserves to Guest articles. Added Remember your grandparents! to Blog!

01-Sep-13

Added There are no nos to Negotiation articles. Added Fait Accompli to More persuasion methods. Added Get a Promise to Change Techniques. Added Staging the Garden to Home Staging. Added Cast a Brick to Attract Jade to The 36 Stratagems. Added The Honorable Way to Break a Promise, Necessary Skills of Sales Part 1 and Accomplishing "Just One Thing" Gives You Permission to Relax to Guest articles. Added A Tale of Two Doctors to Blog!

25-Aug-13

Added The Need for Acceptance to Needs. Added Suggest Facilitation to Negotiation Tactics. Added The Ansoff Matrix to Marketing Strategy. Added Staging the Study to Home Staging. Added Snag the Enemy by Letting Him Off the Hook to The 36 Stratagems. Added Why Bosses And Teachers Have So Much Power Over Families, Trust Is a Two-Way Street and Making Your Net Work Part 8 to Guest articles. Added How to handle men in three easy steps to Blog!

18-Aug-13

Added Four Places to Deliver the Key Message to Articles on Persuasion. Added Entertainment Preferences to Preferences. Added The Typical Commercial Sales Process to Sales articles. Added Staging the Den to Home Staging. Added Lure the Tiger Out of the Mountains to The 36 Stratagems. Added When Your Trust Has Been Violated, Making Your Net Work Part 7, ‘Launch’ Author Michael Stelzner Teaches Businesses to Grow by Being Generous and Why We Make Inaccurate Assessments About Other People to Guest articles. Added I'm glad I'm not a woman to Blog!

11-Aug-13

Added The Lemons Market to Marketing Articles. Added Food Control to Negotiation Tactics. Added Choice vs. Decision to Decisions. Added Staging the Lounge to Home Staging. Added Raise a Corpse From the Dead to The 36 Stratagems. Added Button Pushing, What’s Your Problem?, Making Your Net Work Part 6 and Data, Technology and the Psychology of Social Behaviors: How Obama ‘socialized’ politics to Guest articles. Added Be more dog to Blog!

04-Aug-13

Added It'll be Alright on the Night to Negotiation Tactics. Added What is Luck? to Meaning. Added Enabling Beliefs to Beliefs. Added Staging the Hallways to Home Staging. Added Beat the Grass to Startle the Snake to The 36 Stratagems. Added Sales follow-up strategies that go way beyond ‘touching base’, What the Worst Companies to Work for in America Have in Common and Making Your Net Work Part 5 to Guest articles. Added Book review: Smart Sales Manager to Book reviews. Added How the Mighty Fall: The Three Ages of the Great Company to Blog!

28-Jul-13

Added Music and Dance to Ways to Happiness. Added PESTLE Analysis to Understanding Markets. Added Me-We Persuasion Styles to Articles on persuasion. Added Staging the Bedroom to Home Staging. Added Take the Opportunity to Pilfer a Goat to The 36 Stratagems. Added 3 Big Fears, Assumptions Derail Communication, From Networking to Mastermind Alliance and Making Your Net Work Part 4 to Guest articles. Added The formation of value words to Blog!

21-Jul-13

Added Interview Follow-up Communication to Job Finding. Added Pregiving to Sequential Requests. Added Easy Decisions to Decisions. Added Staging the Bathroom to Home Staging. Added Sacrifice a Plum Tree to Save a Peach Tree to The 36 Stratagems. Added The Platinum Rule, Making Your Net Work Part 3 and Cutting Clich? to Guest articles. Added How to demotivate children (and teachers) to Blog!

14-Jul-13

Added Four Persuasion Styles to Articles on persuasion. Added The Need for Meaning to Needs. Added The Zone Defense to Negotiation Tactics. Added Staging the Kitchen to Home Staging. Added Hide a Knife in a Smile to The 36 Stratagems. Added Are You Asking the Right Question?, Making Your Net Work Part 2 and Do You Know How Much Business You Have Lost Because Of Your Listening Skills? to Guest articles. Added Why science and religion are the same to Blog!

07-July-13

Added Rollercoastering to Negotiation Tactics. Added Doing Mail Surveys to Market Research. Added The Need for Respect to Needs. Added Zoning to Home Staging. Added Watch the Fires Burning Across the River to The 36 Stratagems. Added What Value Do You Place on Learning?, Making Your Net Work Part 1 and How to Listen to Hear What's Intended to Guest articles. Added Sell food to hungry people to Blog!

30-June-13

Added Seven Barriers to Good Communication to Communication Articles. Added Styles of Agreement to Decisions. Added Denouement to Story Devices. Added Vistas and Home Staging Principles to Home Staging. Added Pretend to Take One Path While Sneaking Down Another to The 36 Stratagems. Added Prospecting Effectively - Offline and Online, Selling Starts with Inspiring Others and Are you listening to the wrong feedback? to Guest articles. Added Principles of persuasive design to Blog!

23-June-13

Added Acting With Aplomb to Self-development. Added Confident Body Language to Using Body Language. Added The Psychic's Seven to Needs. Added Composition to Home Staging. Added Create Something Out Of Nothing to The 36 Stratagems. Added Never, Ever Assume, Maintaining a Strong Work Ethic, You’re in sales, you’re too stupid to understand and Why Most Bosses Are Self-Absorbed and How Not To Be a Jerk to Guest articles. Added Boosting minority performance to Blog!

16-June-13

Added The Decay of Belief to Beliefs. Added Social Restoration to Willpower. Added Blackmail to Negotiation Tactics. Added The Elevator Pitch to Self-development. Added Welcoming to Home Staging. Added Make a Feint to the East While Attacking in the West to The 36 Stratagems. Added 6 tips for dealing with a workplace dispute, 3 Insidious Mistakes That Will Mess Up Your Life, Is the Low-Hanging Fruit Really Worth Your Time? and Lunch is for Losers Part 2 to Guest articles. Added What's in a name? It depends how you make it to Blog!

09-June-13

Added Overcoming Limiting Beliefs to Self-development. Added Fallback to Objection-handling. Added Decision Criteria to Decisions. Added Neutral to Home Staging. Added Loot a Burning House to The 36 Stratagems. Added The Language of Leaders, part 2, Lunch is for Losers Part 1, Three Things the Smog of Beijing Could Not Conceal and  'Marketing' Stall - Rethink your next pitch to Guest articles. Added The Composite Persuasion to Book reviews. Added Gripping fun to Blog!

02-June-13

Added Nested Stories to Story Devices. Added Embodied Persuasion to Understanding body language. Added The Social Value of Being Different to Identity (and Groups). Added Fixed to Home Staging. Added Relax While the Enemy Exhausts Himself to The 36 Stratagems. Added Top 10 Sales Myths Debunked, The Language of Leaders, part 1, Lessons of a Startup Part 2 and Why Servant Leadership Is Slightly Off, And What to Do Instead to Guest articles. Added To hell with it to Blog!

26-May-13

Added Reiss' 16 Human Needs to Needs. Added The Action-Consequence Consideration Matrix to Decisions. Added Selling to the Relaxed Buyer to Sales articles. Added Tidy to Home Staging. Added Kill With a Borrowed Knife to The 36 Stratagems. Added The Greater Need, Lessons of a Startup Part 1 and Why Compromise Never Works (and What to Do Instead) to Guest articles. Added The smell of anxiety to Blog!

19-May-13

Added Blessed Relief to Ways to Happiness. Added Decisional Balance to Decisions. Added Status Values to Values. Added Spacious to Home Staging. Added Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao to The 36 Stratagems. Added Why No One Seems to Be Fighting Fair, Key Steps to Enhance Your Customer Service Part 6 and 3 Things Successful Happy People Do Differently to Guest articles. Added Happiness, Busy-ness and Laziness to Blog!

12-May-13

Added Extremist Argument to Articles about Argument. Added Misleading Vividness to Fallacies. Added Marketing Messages to Marketing Articles. Added Listening to Anger to Listening. Added Fragrant to Home Staging. Started The 36 Stratagems, in Detail to Warfare with Fool the Sky to Cross the Sea. Added DWYSYWD in Sales, Key Steps to Enhance Your Customer Service Part 5 and How Biz Blab and Manipulation Erode the Nobility of Sales to Guest articles. Added The simple complexity of avoidant instructions to Blog!

05-May-13

Added Understanding, Not Agreement to Negotiation Tactics. Added Positive Emotions to Emotions. Added ARCS Motivation Model to Motivation. Added Clean to Home Staging. Added the last section, The Annotated Art of War (Parts 13.26-27: Conclusion) to The Annotated Art of War. Added Don’t Miss a Buying Signal, Key Steps to Enhance Your Customer Service Part 4 and The Power of Uncertainty: How to become the most persuasive person in the room to Guest articles. Added Asking for the Truth to Blog!

28-Apr-13

On holiday.

21-Apr-13

Started Market Research with In-depth Market Research. Added Deducing Our Selves to Identity. Added Climactic Closure to Storytelling articles. Added Temperate to Home Staging. Added Parts 13.21-25: Using The Five Classes of Spies to The Annotated Art of War. Added Continuances Don’t Advance the Sale, Key Steps to Enhance Your Customer Service Part 3 and Are Your Metaphors Ruining Your Relationships? to Guest articles. Added Blue Lights Behind to Blog!

14-Apr-13

Added Inquiry Arousal to Motivation. Added Evolution and Religion to Evolution. Added How to Deliver Bad News to Communication Articles. Started Home Staging in Techniques with Light. Added Parts 13.14-20: Using Spies to The Annotated Art of War. Added Handling Your Own Call Reluctance, Key Steps to Enhance Your Customer Service Part 2 and Walls or Windows: An Active Approach to a Superior Work Environment to Guest articles. Added What is winning? to Blog!

07-Apr-13

Added Play Dumb to Negotiation Tactics. Added Perceptual Arousal to Motivation. Added Knowledge Paralysis to Decisions. Added Mind-Reading Mistakes to Relationships. Added The Power of Abbreviation to Persuasive Language. Added Parts 13.7-13: Five Classes of Spies to The Annotated Art of War. Added Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Key Steps to Enhance Your Customer Service Part 1 and Who Are You Letting Into Your Head? to Guest articles. Added The three Ls of a good marriage to Blog!

31-Mar-13

Added Whistleblowing to More persuasion methods. Added Three Ps of Persuasiveness to Articles on persuasion. Added The Identifiable Victim Effect to Academic Theories. Added Price Not Negotiable to Negotiation Tactics. Added Parts 13.4-6: Foreknowledge to The Annotated Art of War. Added Boost Your Personal Effectiveness – Part 2, Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer Part 4 and Reinventing You: Why Defining Your “Brand” Matters to Guest articles. Added Extremism and Anger to Blog!

24-Mar-13

Added Misleading Information to Negotiation Tactics. Added Creating Physical Arousal to Creating Arousal. Added Them and Us to Sociology. Added Selling Scarce Products to Sales articles. Added The Drop-in-the-Ocean Effect to Decisions. Added Parts 13.1-3: War is Expensive to The Annotated Art of War. Added Boost Your Personal Effectiveness – Part 1, Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer Part 3, and Buying Patterns, Buy Cycle, Buying Decisions to Guest articles. Added The Cult of the Average to Blog!

17-Mar-13

Added All I've Got to Negotiation Tactics. Added The Power of Apology to Relationships. Added Creating Cognitive Arousal to Creating Arousal. Added The Dark Triad to Personality Disorders. Added Blocking to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 12.17-22: Waste Not to The Annotated Art of War. Added Let's Be Fair, Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer Part 2, and How to Protect Yourself from Being Hit in the Gut by the Two-By-Four Called Love to Guest articles. Added Being Welsh to Blog!

10-Mar-13

Added Using Policy to Persuade to More persuasion methods. Added Creating Arousal to Motivation starting with Creating Emotional Arousal. Added Market Research Interviews to Understanding Markets. Added Difficult Decisions to Decisions. Added Defending to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 12.15-16: Encouraging Enterprise to The Annotated Art of War. Added Turning Your Back on the Crowd, Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer Part 1 and Walk The Line: Keep It Clear & Simple While Still Offering Multiple Options to Guest articles. Added The Purpose of Art to Blog!

03-Mar-13

Added Illogic to Conversion techniques. Added Evolutionary Drivers to Evolution. Added Intent to Motivation. Added Arousal Conflict to Internal CIA Conflicts. Added Attacking to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 12.13-14: Using Water to The Annotated Art of War. Added Candidly SpeakingInmate Satisfaction, Facilitative Questions: Questions That Facilitate Change With Integrity and 5 Rules To Guarantee Engagement During Your Presentation to Guest articles. Added Selling to job-hunters to Blog!

24-Feb-13

Added Absolute Authority to Conversion techniques. Added Empathetic Language to Building Rapport. Added Bribery to Negotiation Tactics. Added Identity Conflict to Internal CIA Conflicts. Added Challenging to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 12.5-12: Five Developments to The Annotated Art of War. Added Why Other People Make It Hard To Get Things Done, How to Handle a Panel Interview and Important Early Sales Lessons to Guest articles. Added The flattering mirror to Blog!

17-Feb-13

Started Internal CIA Conflicts in Needs with Control Conflict. Added Creating Curiosity to Motivation. Added Teasing to Relationships. Added Two Types of Criticism to Communication Articles. Added Avoiding to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 12.3-4: Seasons to The Annotated Art of War. Added Why Hating Rich People is Making You Broke and How to Prevent the Dreaded Burnout to Guest articles. Added Does money make you happy? to Blog!

10-Feb-13

Added Make a Mountain out of a Molehill to Negotiation Tactics, Added Create Empathy to Building Rapport. Added Pre-apology to Persuasive Language. Added Following Requests to Ingratiation. Added Disagreeing to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 12.1-2: Five Ways to The Annotated Art of War. Added Hiring Within Your Culture, What is the Poison Person Costing You? and The Role Of Systems, Bias, And Emotion: The Missing Piece In Decision Facilitation to Guest articles. Added Deconstructing 'Keep Calm and Carry On' to Blog!

03-Feb-13

Added Reasonable or Right to Storytelling articles. Added Mainstreaming to Marketing Articles. Added Feather-bedding to Ingratiation. Added Good Communication to Organizational Communication. Added Supporting to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 11.52-55: Alliances to The Annotated Art of War. Added Training every day for changing minds and persuasion, Finding the Decision Maker and How 2 Minutes of Power Posing Can Make You More Confident to Guest articles. Added More Good Service to Blog!

27-Jan-13

Added A Four Stage Negotiation Process to Negotiation articles. Added Imperfect Recall to Ways to Happiness. Added Face-saving to Ingratiation. Added Employee Communication to Organizational Communication. Added Self-promotion to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 11.60-68: More Tactics to The Annotated Art of War. Added The Easier Form of Hacking: Social Engineering, Gaining Competitive Insights and The New Relationship Manager: how to differentiate yourself to Guest articles. Added Hey, your computer booted up 102% quicker! to Blog!

20-Jan-13

Added Creating a Constructive Negotiation Climate to Negotiation activities. Added A New Look at Jungian Dimensions to Preferences. Added The 'Other' in Story to Characters in a Story. Added Facilitation to Ingratiation. Added The Grapevine to Organizational Communication. Added Excluding to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 11.56-59: Confusing Leadership to The Annotated Art of War. Added Forty Ways to Ruin a Sale...and How to Avoid Them Part 9, To Sell Is Human (Whether You Like It or Not) and You think know your buyer. You don't to Guest articles. Added Selling Saturdays to Book reviews. Added Air fresheners and adaptation to Blog!

13-Jan-13

Added Four Reasons Why We Get Angry to Emotions. Added Four Knowledge Capability Levels to Learning. Added Favors to Ingratiation. Added Outward to Organizational Communication. Added Including to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 11.41-51: Nine Ground Measures to The Annotated Art of War. Added Forty Ways to Ruin a Sale...and How to Avoid Them Part 8 and How does social networking help make the sale? to Guest articles. Added Famous for fifteen minutes to Blog!

06-Jan-13

Added Infant Humor to Using Humor. Added Fawning to Ingratiation. Added Horizontal Communication to Organizational Communication. Added Building to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 11.38-40: No Way Back to The Annotated Art of War. Added Leveraging Your Employee Performance Appraisal Process to Facilitate Change, Overcoming Inferiority Complex and Forty Ways to Ruin a Sale...and How to Avoid Them Part 7 to Guest articles. Added Doggy game theory to Blog!

30-Dec-12

Added Money Words to Persuasive Language. Started Ingratiation in General persuasion techniques with Flattery. Added Upward Communication to Organizational Communication. Added Living Without Blame to Blame. Added Checking to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 11.35-37: Secrecy to The Annotated Art of War. Added Forty Ways to Ruin a Sale...and How to Avoid Them Part 6, Why I Want To Invent a Time Machine for Empathy and Receive generosity to Guest articles. Added Luck, numbers and wishful thinking to Blog!

23-Dec-12

Added How to Tell When Customers Are Ready to Buy to Sales articles. Started Organizational Communication in Communication with Downward Communication. Added Emotions and Blame to Blame. Added Summarizing to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 11.32-34: Leading Everyone to The Annotated Art of War. Added Forty Ways to Ruin a Sale...and How to Avoid Them Part 5, One Big Idea From Improv That Will Make You More Successful (And Stylish) and 7 Killer Steps to Create a Kick Ass Sales Proposal to Guest articles. Added The End of the World to Blog!

16-Dec-12

Added Floppy Requests to Negotiation articles. Added Superiority Words to Persuasive Language. Added Type of Fear to Emotions. Added What Makes a Sales Person Great? to Sales articles. Added Why We Blame Ourselves to Blame. Added Proposing to Elements of the Conversation. Added Parts 11.29-31: Mutual Support and the Shuai-jan Snake to The Annotated Art of War. Added Forty Ways to Ruin a Sale...and How to Avoid Them Part 4,  Ways to Get Over Yourself in Under 5 Minutes, Does Social Networking Really Work? and Non-verbal communication to Guest articles. Added Negative negotiations to Blog!

09-Dec-12

Added Will and Power to Power. Added The Beliefs of Blame to Blame. Added Changing Habits With Small Wins to Habit. Added Asserting to Elements of the Conversation. Added How to Persuade With Willpower to Willpower. Added Your Customers' Customers to Marketing. Added Parts 11.20-28: Motivating Soldiers to The Annotated Art of War. Added What’s In a Name?, Forty Ways to Ruin a Sale...and How to Avoid Them Part 3, Focus on Leadership and Improve Your Safety Levels and Does Social Networking Really Work? to Guest articles. Added Getting good service to Blog!

02-Dec-12

Added Thick Black Theory to Power. Added Why We Blame Others to Blame. Added Useful Habits to Habit. Added Asking to Elements of the Conversation. Added Share Good News to Ways to Happiness. Added Value Exchange to Marketing. Added Parts 11.15-19: Division, Moves and Speed to The Annotated Art of War. Added It’s Time to Think, Forty Ways to Ruin a Sale...and How to Avoid Them Part 2 and It Pays to Go the Extra Mile to Guest articles. Added Our helpful brains to Blog!

24-Nov-12

Moving house. Hope to be back online asap (provider willing).

18-Nov-12

Started Blame in Behaviors with What is Blame? Added How to Stop Bad Habits to Habit. Started Elements of the Conversation in Conversation techniques with Informing. Added Consumer Segmentation Variables to Marketing. Added Computer Games to Game Design. Added Parts 11.11-14: Nine Ground Tactics to The Annotated Art of War. Added Encouragement: a Little Bit Goes a Long Way, Forty Ways to Ruin a Sale...and How to Avoid Them Part 1, The Big Mistake We Make About Internal Motivation and Marketing Automation can Facilitate the Entire Buying Decision Path to Guest articles. Added Moving house, nudging lawyers to Blog!

11-Nov-12

Added Machiavellianism to Personality Disorders. Added Requirements Close to Closing techniques. Added Market Segmentation to Marketing. Added God Games to Game Design. Added Parts 11.1-10: Nine Varieties of Ground to The Annotated Art of War. Added 10 Great Questions to Ask Your Client, Friend or Spouse, Don't Stop Chasing Your Dream!, Drama Belongs in the Theatre and Finding Funding From Your Own Wallet to Guest articles. Added Basically... to Blog!

04-Nov-12

Added Graves' Levels to Learning. Added The Power Perception Matrix to Power. Added Levels of Uncertainty to Articles About Change. Added Price-Promotion Strategies to Marketing. Added Multiplayer Games to Game Design. Added Parts 10.27-31: When to Attack to The Annotated Art of War. Added Does What You Do Define Who You Are?, Finding a Mentor, Let's Shake on It and Forecasting closed sales: how you will know when a buyer will close to Guest articles. Added Thinking, walking and multitasking to Blog!

28-Oct-12

Added Bowlby's Attachment Theory to Psychoanalysis. Added Attachment to Relationships. Added Focus on Benefits to Networking. Added How to Build Good Habits to Habit. Added Elements of Marketing Strategy in Marketing Strategy to Marketing. Added Hybrid Games to Game Design. Added Parts 10.25-26: Soldiers as Children to The Annotated Art of War. Added Actions Speak Louder than Words, Enlist Help in the Sales Process, The Power of Belief and Expectation and Give no one cause to fear you to Guest articles. Added The Bond Blitz to Blog!

21-Oct-12

Added Synchrony to Building Rapport. Started Networking in Disciplines with A Brief History of Networking. Added Habit, compulsion and addiction to Habit. Added Valuing Customers to Marketing. Added Games Children Play to Game Design. Added Parts 10.21-24: Applied Intelligence to The Annotated Art of War. Added Sellers Need To Change How Buyers Do Their Maths, Are You a Papaya, a Pear, or a Mango?, Crucial Body Language Cues to Know When Doing Business Abroad and Why Most Presentations Are Terrible, And How Not To Be Awful to Guest articles. Added Photos lend credibility to Blog!

14-Oct-12

Added Talking to the Taxman to Negotiation articles. Added Close Your Eyes to Memory methods. Added Habituation to Habit. Added Customer Expectation to Marketing. Added What Women Like In Games to Game Design. Added Parts 10.14-20: Six Calamities to The Annotated Art of War. Added Employ an Open Door Policy, What Are You Trying to Hide?, 9 Sales Steps that Influence a Buying Decision and Two Secrets to Being Perceived As Helpful Rather Than Critical to Guest articles. Added Men, women, crisis and leadership to Blog!

07-Oct-12

Added Appeal to Trust to Fallacies. Started Habit in Behaviors with Habits are.... Added The Cost of Customers to Marketing. Added What Men Like In Games to Game Design. Added Parts 10.1-13: Six Kinds of Terrain to The Annotated Art of War. Added Developing a Training Table for Novice Salespeople, How To Open-Source & Crowd-Source Your Selling!, The Top Two Compensators: Listening & Learning Agility and Love the world to Guest articles. Added Valuable giveaways to Blog!

30-Sep-12

Added Bentham's 14 Pleasures to Happiness. Added Organizational Structure Dimensions to Organization Design. Added Five Ds of Stress to Stress. Added Customer Sacrifice to Marketing. Added World Games to Game Design. Added Parts 9.42-45: Control of Soldiers to The Annotated Art of War. Added What Are The 10 Best Days Of Your Life?, Be Specific When Communicating with All of Your Audiences, Developing a Series of Non-negotiables and Is Selling Synonymous with Persuasion, Influence and Manipulation? to Guest articles. Added Divided by a common language? to Blog!

23-Sep-12

On holiday.

16-Sep-12

On holiday.

09-Sep-12

Added Cognitive-Relational Model of Stress to Stress. Added Reinforcing Habits to Ways to Happiness. Added Mintzberg's Organizational Forms to Organization Design. Added Customer Loyalty to Marketing. Added Construction Games to Game Design. Added Parts 9.29-31: Thinking to The Annotated Art of War. Added The Importance of Operational Discipline and Formality to Improving Safety in High-Reliability Organizations, A Rush to Judgment, Day In Day Out and Know you’re a good person to Guest articles. Added Don't name the pig to Blog!

02-Sep-12

Added Three-Stage Belief Change to Beliefs. Added Praising Effort or Achievement to Teaching techniques. Added Abusive Relationships to Sociology and Relationships. Added Customers are... to Marketing. Added Dexterity Games to Game Design. Added Parts 9.18-28: Enemy Tactics to The Annotated Art of War. Added Four Patterns Of Excuse-Making And How To Avoid Them, Is Humility a Liability In Sales?, Crafting Your Customer Service Model and Hug the monkey to Guest articles. Added Connecting hearts to Blog!

26-Aug-12

Added The Hook to Persuasive Language. Added Working Marriage to Ways to Happiness. Added Harmony to Needs. Added Market Fragmentation to Marketing. Added Simulation Games to Game Design. Added Parts 9.11-17: Obstacles to The Annotated Art of War. Added Why People Are Afraid To Be Enthusiastic, Finding The Guru Within, What Kind of Intelligent Are You? and Company Culture and Its Importance to Guest articles. Added Face learning to Blog!

19-Aug-12

Added The Criminal Tipping Point to Decisions. Added Here and There to Modifying meaning. Added Urge and Self-Control to Willpower. Added Boston Matrix to Marketing. Added Strategic Games to Game Design. Added Parts 9.9-10: Dry Plains to The Annotated Art of War. Added Choosing the Right Marketing Outlets, Afraid to Fail? Just Change Your Punctuation!, I knew it. I knew it. and Have compassion to Guest articles. Added Listening to friends to Blog!

12-Aug-12

Added Apology to Excuses. Added How Humor Works to Using Humor. Added Brainstem to Parts of the brain (and Understanding the brain). Added Market Attractiveness to Marketing. Added Team Games to Game Design. Added Parts 9.7-8: Salt marshes to The Annotated Art of War. Added Build a Never-ending Referral Pipeline, How to Build a Great Relationship in 15 Minutes a Day, Give over to good and Better PR in One Hour to Guest articles. Added Oooh, hello! to Blog!

05-Aug-12

Added The Samson Principle to Beliefs. Added Four Change Strategies to Planning for Change. Added Precision to Teaching techniques. Added Porter's Five Forces to Marketing. Added Competitive Games to Game Design. Added Parts 9.3-6: Rivers  to The Annotated Art of War. Added Branding Yourself as the Salesperson to Contact, Husbands: The Gorillas in our Midst, Relax, you’ve arrived and Show and Tell to Guest articles. Added How to reduce eating to Blog!

29-Jul-12

On holiday.

Added A teacher's end to Blog!

22-Jul-12

Added Not Happy to Negotiation Tactics. Added Values Development to Values. Added Cueing to Teaching techniques. Added Barriers to Entry to Marketing. Added Physical Games to Game Design. Added Parts 9.1-2: High places to The Annotated Art of War. Added Become An Even Smarter Salesperson, How Shared Purpose Can Keep Arguments from Becoming Personal and 7 Killer Steps to Create a Kick Ass Sales Proposal to Guest articles. Added Cheating, criminalizing and confession to Blog!

15-Jul-12

Added Behavior Labeling to Negotiation activities. Added Stand Up to Closing the conversation. Added Praise to Teaching techniques. Added Market Players to Marketing. Added Material Games to Game Design. Added Parts 8.12-14: Five sins to The Annotated Art of War. Added 4 Steps to Change the Way You React to Challenges, Always Know Your Share, Social Engineering – We Start Playing and It Doesn’t Matter Until You Actually Do It… So Do It! to Guest articles. Added Emotionally intelligent signage and traffic calming to Blog!

08-Jul-12

Added 16 Areas for Happiness to Ways to Happiness. Started Teaching techniques in Teaching with Mysteries. Added The Development of Group Norms to Values. Added A Hierarchy of Markets to Marketing. Added Intellectual Games to Game Design. Added Parts 8.3-11: Advantages to The Annotated Art of War. Added Always Answer Customer Calls, Like lightning, one story revived sales by 135%, Social Engineering – We Start Playing, and Rest to Guest articles. Added Getting kids to eat their food to Blog!

01-Jul-12

Added One-shot Chores to Ways to Happiness. Added The Hesitation Point to Sales articles. Added Three Market Environments to Marketing. Added Role-playing Games to Game Design. Added Willpower Language to Willpower. Added Parts 8.1-2: On the Move to The Annotated Art of War. Added How Storytelling Shapes your Self-perception, Does a PhD Change Peoples’ Minds?, Always Know Your Share and See beings, not bodies to Guest articles. Added Avoidant instructions to Blog!

24-Jun-12

Added Robbins' Six Needs to Needs. Added Appraisal Theory to Academic Theories. Added Inbound Marketing to Marketing. Added Games of Chance to Game Design. Added Moral Support to Willpower. Added Parts 7.33-37: Caution to The Annotated Art of War. Added Always Answer Customer Calls, Pipeline management: is your forecasting accurate?, Stay right when you’re wronged, Lessons from a Boiling Frog and Giving Advice the Right Way to Guest articles. Added A public revenge to Blog!

17-Jun-12

Added Non-verbal Functions to Understanding body language. Added Identifying WEB Requirements to Negotiation activities. Added Outbound Marketing to Marketing. Added Games of Skill to Game Design. Added Personal Attack to Willpower. Added Parts 7.30-32: Calm to The Annotated Art of War. Added The Walking in the Door Problem, The Right Rewards and Incentives, Adding Variety in Your Work and Feel cared about to Guest articles. Added Intelligent advertising to Blog!

10-Jun-12

Started Marketing in Disciplines with What is Marketing? and What is a Market?. Added Booker's Meta-Plot to Booker's Seven Basic Plots. Added Games as Prisons to Game Design.  Added The Power Gaze to Willpower. Added Parts 7.27-29: Spirit to The Annotated Art of War. Added Can Science Liberate Our Mind After All?, Are Smart People Miserable?, ABC Selling Skills and Are Speaking Skills More Valued than Listening? to Guest articles.  Added Hot desking and human adaptability to Blog!

03-Jun-12

Added Argyris' Model 2 Governing Values to Values. Added Reverse Psychology to More persuasion methods. Added Rebirth to Booker's Seven Basic Plots. Added Games as Real-izing to Game Design.  Added Ganging Up to Willpower. Added Parts 7.23-26: Signs and signals to The Annotated Art of War. Added How I reframed paying my taxes: Why self talk matters, Keep your eyes on the prize, Sales is a Flawed Model, A Supportive Company Can Make All the Difference and Sit Up Straight and Pay Attention! to Guest articles.  Added Here and there to Blog!

27-May-12

Added Seven Facial Characteristics of Liars to Lying. Added Tragedy to Booker's Seven Basic Plots. Added Crying to Coping Mechanisms. Added Games as Storying to Game Design.  Added Dripping Tap to Willpower. Added Parts 7.15-22: Be skilled  to The Annotated Art of War. Added Do You Start With Why or How?, How to win any dispute with ease!, Extraordinary Customer Service Beyond All Odds, Empty the cup and Overcome Objections and Close the Sale to Guest articles. Added Connecting with celebs to Blog!

20-May-12

Added Social Compliance principle to Persuasion principles. Added Tempered Ambition to Ways to Happiness. Added Comedy to Booker's Seven Basic Plots. Added Games as Discovery to Game Design.  Added Persistence to Willpower. Added Parts 7.11-14: Ensure familiarity to The Annotated Art of War. Added Analyzing Your Sales Skills, X-Gap: Using Strategic Planning to Close the Project Execution "Gap", Step into the cloud, 7 Ways to Get Over Your Fear of Asking for the Sale, The Challenger Sale: 4th sales breakthrough in the past 100-years? and How To Keep Yourself And Your Team From Getting Mired In The Mundane to Guest articles. Added Truth, lies and drawings to Blog!

13-May-12

Added The Slogan Trap to Brand management. Added Voyage and Return to Booker's Seven Basic Plots. Added Four Colors of Lie to Lying. Added Games as Experiencing to Game Design.  Added Build-Up to Willpower. Added Parts 7.5-10: The price of speed to The Annotated Art of War. Added ABC - Always Be Closing, Remember the big things, My Dad Waterskied in a Leisure Suit: Why Peers Matter and My Quest to Understand Entelechy to Guest articles. Added Selling raffle tickets to Blog!

05-May-12

Added Four Social Roles to Values. Added The Meaning of Money to Motivation. Added The Quest to Booker's Seven Basic Plots. Added Game as Purpose to Game Design.  Added Escalation to Willpower. Added Parts 7.1-4: From command to maneuver to The Annotated Art of War. Added What’s Your Body Saying About You?, Feed the wolf of love, 5 Ways to Earn a Prospect's Trust and You Can Win Press Coverage at Trade Shows by Following a Few Simple Suggestions to Guest articles. Added Attentional bias and religion to Blog!

29-Apr-12

Added Common Values to Values. Added Rags to Riches to Booker's Seven Basic Plots. Added Body Control to Using Body Language. Added Games as Being to Game Design.  Added Emulate Experts to Willpower. Added Parts 6.28-34: Varying Tactics to The Annotated Art of War. Added The Stupid Mistake Most People Make When Choosing A Career, Chiropractic Marketing Myth: Time, Be friendly and Deliver the Right Content at the Right Stage of the Buy-Path to Guest articles. Added The limits of advertising to Blog!

22-Apr-12

Added Family Matters to Ways to Happiness. Started Booker's Seven Basic Plots in Storytelling Plots with Overcoming the Monster. Added Hate Groups to Groups. Added Games as Bonding to Game Design.  Added Conserve Willpower to Willpower. Added Parts 6.25-27: Conceal Tactics to The Annotated Art of War. Added 5 Ways to Stay Focused During Times of Uncertainty, Pet the lizard, How much time do sales people waste? and SMART Goals Keep You Focused to Guest articles. Added Selling the house to Blog!

15-Apr-12

Added White Lies to Lying. Added Vulnerability and Values to Values. Added Micro-expressions to Using Body Language. Added Games as Social Facilitation to Game Design.  Added Challenge Others to Willpower. Added Parts 6.21-24: Understanding Them to The Annotated Art of War. Added How To Enjoy Business Travel When You’d Rather Be Home, Sign You May Be on Sales Auto-Pilot, Selling with Integrity and Find your North Star to Guest articles. Added Assertion or Persuasion in Politics to Blog!

08-Apr-12

Added But You Are Free to Sequential Requests. Added The Sales ARC to Sales methods. Added Adaptation to Coping Mechanisms. Added Games as Need-Fulfilment to Game Design.  Added Resist Persuasion to Willpower. Added Parts 6.13-20: Knowing and Secrecy to The Annotated Art of War. Added Why Time Doesn't Heal All Wounds, Cold Calling Killers, Ask questions and Why Do People Still Bother To Write Books? to Guest articles. Added The Rules of Influence to Book reviews. Added Customer service language to Blog!

01-Apr-12

Added Miller's Law to Communication Articles. Added Realities of War to Articles on Warfare. Added Four Core Company Values to Values. Added Games as Escape to Game Design.  Added Think Right to Willpower. Added Parts 6.7-12: Choosing Moments to The Annotated Art of War. Added 8 Bad Habits that Are Driving Your Coworkers Crazy, Successful Marketing Tips, Getting a Handle on Challenging Calls, 6 Things You Need in a Home Office and See the good in others to Guest articles. Added Managing and measuring to Blog!

25-Mar-12

Added Tabling Readiness for Change to Change Readiness. Added Fragmented Fun to Ways to Happiness. Added Elegant Negotiables to Negotiation articles. Added Games as Therapy to Game Design. Added Work Smarter to Willpower. Added Parts 6.1-6: Taking Initiative to The Annotated Art of War. Added Why profit should NOT be the primary purpose of business, Cling less, love moreA little acknowledgement goes a long, long way…, First Contact: What to Do, Why, and How to Get Better Results and Submit to Jobs Like A Salesman to Guest articles. Added How to sell more shampoo (or use less to Blog!

18-Mar-12

Added Charting Readiness for Change to Change Readiness. Added The Use of Stories to Storytelling articles. Added Games as Hedonism to Game Design. Added Work Harder to Willpower. Added Parts 5.21-23: Combined Energy to The Annotated Art of War. Added Collaborative Leadership: A Process for Success in a Turbulent World, If you don’t know where you are going then the direction does not matter!, Why Comparing Yourself to Other People is a Good Thing, Does the sales model do what we need it to do? and The Rule of Thirds: How to Truly Listen  to Guest articles. Added How you look changes what they say to Blog!

11-Mar-12

Added Good and Bad to Decisions. Added Trust and Control to Trust. Added The Greiner Growth Model to Organization Design. Added Games as Hope to Game Design. Added Resist Temptation to Willpower. Added Parts 5.19-20: Deceit to The Annotated Art of War. Added 14 Things Sales People Should Never Stop Doing, Why Procrastination is Good for You: 5 Ways to Make it Work, Simplicity and Elegance: Expressing Your Core Competencies, Branding With Customer Service and The Science behind Truth Wizards and Human Lie Detectors to Guest articles. Added Freedom, abuse and control to Blog!

04-Mar-12

Added Spirituality to Values. Added Early Followers to Followership in Leadership. Added Games as Conflict to Game Design. Added Get Healthy to Willpower. Added Parts 5.16-18: Apparent Disorder to The Annotated Art of War. Added Sales Secrets from Baja CaliforniaHow Apologizing Makes You More Powerful, Initial Resistance: I Only Have 30 Minutes, Understanding the Unique Body Language of Liars and Pay attention to Guest articles. Added Housing pains to Blog!

26-Feb-12

Added The Set-point Theory of Happiness to Happiness. Added Decision Fatigue to Decisions. Added Ability to Change to Change Readiness. Added Games as Self-Development to Game Design. Added Be Charitable to Willpower. Added Parts 5.12-15: Decision to The Annotated Art of War. Added Are you aggressive or assertive? Frantic or focused?, Leave the Red Zone, Handwriting-based Lie Detection, Cold Calling Works – and it’s fun! and iContact vs. Eye Contact: The PR Value of Networking to Guest articles. Added Review: The Psychology Book to Book reviews. Added Store designs that work to Blog!

19-Feb-12

Added Change Readiness to Change Management starting with Willingness to Change. Added Doyal and Gough's Needs to Needs. Added Rubicon Model to Decisions. Added Games as Learning to Game Design. Added Visualize to Willpower. Added Parts 5.7-11: Combination to The Annotated Art of War. Added The Great Contact Lens Solution Epiphany About Consciousness, Wait until the Buying Decision Team is in place to visit or pitch, 6 Do’s and Don’ts of Using an iPad on a Sales Call, Be benevolent and The Strongest Incentive to Guest articles. Added Painting the walls smart to Blog!

12-Feb-12

Added Diagram Close to Closing techniques. Added Value to Motivation. Added Horney's Neurotic Needs to Needs. Added Arousal Personality Types to Preferences. Added Gaming as Time-Wasting to Game Design. Added Willpower Style to Willpower. Added Parts 5.3-6: Direct and Indirect to The Annotated Art of War. Added Why Purpose Matters: Four Business Reasons Plus One Emotional One, How do you buy? Steps in a buying decision, Face-to-Face PR: Networking Works if You Choose Wisely, Are You a Team Player? and Make the offering to Guest articles. Added The extrinsic end of education to Blog!

05-Feb-12

Added The CIA Needs Model to Needs. Added Three Types of Arousal to Motivation. Started Game Design in Disciplines with What is a Game? and Gaming as Comfort. Added Willpower Exercises to Willpower with Start Small. Added Parts 5.1-2: Large and Small to The Annotated Art of War. Added Think Different - About Marketing, My Job is to Start a Conversation, Get Your Organization "On Message" to Be Memorable and Grab the Attention of All of Your Important Audiences and Love It or It’s Free: How to Write Compelling Guarantee Offers How to get your customers to believe your "satisfaction guaranteed" offer to Guest articles. Added Real intimacy to Blog!

29-Jan-12

Added The Fundamental Question to Leadership articles. Added Bite-sized Chunks to Speaking Tips. Added Arousal Thresholds to Motivation. Added Conversion Theory to Academic Theories. Added Take Glucose to Willpower. Added Parts 4.16-20: Military Method to The Annotated Art of War. Added Why Hope Is A Great Strategy, Where does selling begin? Activate the buying journey immediately, You’re the leader, what are you thinking?, Time is Money and Say thanks to Guest articles. Added Sexy screen locations to Blog!

22-Jan-12

Added Urges to Motivation. Added My Agenda, Your Agenda to Assertiveness. Added ADMO to Models of Communication. Added Assertive Body Language to Using Body Language. Added Pride Thinking to Willpower. Added Parts 4.8-15: Excellence to The Annotated Art of War. Added Using Verbal Context in Lie Detection, One Dysfunction per Generation Isn’t Too Bad, Develop New Selling Skills to Develop Your Sales Career, Don’t beat up yourself, Solution Selection: do we know how buyers choose one solution over another? and How to Get Press Coverage at Trade Shows to Guest articles. Added The smell of fear to Blog!

15-Jan-12

Added Hot and Cold Emotions to Emotions. Added Your Bill of Rights to Assertiveness. Added Four Models of Relating to Relationships. Added Placebo Effect to Academic Theories. Added Future Focus to Willpower. Added Parts 4.1-7: Defend or Attack to The Annotated Art of War. Added 7 Lies Sales People Tell Themselves, Organizational Gravity: Three Steps to Foster Continuous Improvement, Defy Obsolescence and Take Flight, Keys to the Gatekeeper, One Simple Thing To Make People Like You More and How to unite your team through teambuilding to Guest articles. Added Obviously, you must believe me to Blog!

08-Jan-12

Added McKee's Admonishments to Storytelling articles. Added Expressing Feelings to Assertiveness. Added Giving Feedback to The Coaching Process. Added Goal Focus to Willpower. Added Parts 16-18: Five Essentials for Victory to The Annotated Art of War. Added The Challenger Sale to Book reviews. Added Performance Reviews, Santa and the Slack Factor, How to Build Trust and Rapport Quickly, Communication Strategies, Systems, and Skills, Top Ten Sales Books of All Time, Admit fault and move on and “But I talk to everyone this way”: the difference between selling patterns and buying patterns to Guest articles. Added The days are long but the years are short to Blog!

01-Jan-12

Added Chewing Helps Thinking to Meaning. Added Frame of Reference to Models. Added The Walk-away Trap to Negotiation Mistakes. Added Demonizing Outsiders to Groups. Added Changing Belief to Willpower. Added Parts 3.11-15: Bringing Misfortune to The Annotated Art of War. Added One Free Thing That Will Make Your Life Better Next Year, The differences between the solution sale and the buying decision: let’s go to a wedding, How To Get Change Management on the Project Management Agenda, Top Ten Solution Sales Questions and Be the body to Guest articles. Added National treasures to Blog!

25-Dec-11

Added Brockriede's Six Argument Characteristics to Making the Argument. Added The Ignorance Trap to Learning Theory. Added No Need to Resisting persuasion. Added Rewarding to Willpower. Added Parts 3.6-10: Fighting Strategy to The Annotated Art of War. Added Managing Your Online Brand in the World’s Best & Worst Marketplace, The Charismatic Leader – Diamond Performance, Executive Coaching and Debriefing for Corporate Leadership Development Programs, How To Get People To Buy Into Your Ideas, Beethoven Goes Guerilla and 5 copywriting judo moves every copywriter should know to Guest articles. Added Christmas messages to Blog!

18-Dec-11

Added Story is... to Storytelling articles. Added Social Styles to Preferences. Added Radicalization to Conversion techniques. Added Incubating Decisions to Decisions. Added Actualizer Needs to Needs. Added Parts 3.1-5: Avoid Battle to The Annotated Art of War. Added Back to basics, 10 Ways to Realize Hidden Opportunities, When Do Buyers Buy?, 4 practical ways to sell without writing a sales pitch, How to Create a Killer Sales Proposal and The Four Cornerstones of Superior Customer Service to Guest articles. Added Media, decency and success to Blog!

11-Dec-11

Added Synchrony to Diffusion. Added The Knowledge Trap to Learning Theory. Added PERMA to Motivation. Added Group Interests to Groups. Added Stockholm Syndrome to Academic Theories. Added Parts 2.19-20: Victory not Campaigns to The Annotated Art of War. Added The Ophiuchus Effect, Are you an additive person or a subtractive one?, How to Create a Year End Sales Blitz, Busy People Make Time! and How to inspire your team to Guest articles. Added The power of unconditional love to Blog!

04-Dec-11

Added Preparation and Confirmation to Coping Mechanisms. Added Earlier Adopters to Diffusion. Added Soft Power to Power. Added Determination to Willpower. Added Parts 2.16-18: Rewarding Troops to The Annotated Art of War. Added Failure Is An Option, How To Enjoy Your Life Even When You Can’t Slow Down, Who’s in the meeting – and who’s not?, Feedback: Some People Can't Handle the Truth, Increase Your Sales by Mastering the Art of Follow-Up and Say thanks to Guest articles. Added Free (again) to Blog!

27-Nov-11

Added Disbelief to Beliefs. Added Engaging Hobby to Ways to Happiness. Added Shame Thinking to Willpower. Added The Persecutor-Victim Paradox to Bullying. Added Parts 2.8-15: Foraging to The Annotated Art of War. Added Memories: Are you Making Them With Clients?, 12 Dirty Little Secrets: why buyers don’t buy, How to Win Visibility (and even get your story told in the press), What is Your Customer's Price Tolerance Ratio? and Growing with Change to Guest articles. Added Black Friday, Big Deal to Blog!

20-Nov-11

Added Persuasion SPICE to Overall persuasion methods. Added Attributional Style to Preferences. Added Individual vs. Group to Evolution. Added Goal Focus to Willpower. Added Types of bullying to Bullying. Added Parts 2.2-7 Brevity to The Annotated Art of War. Added Mesmerized, 30 Proven Ways to Be More Persuasive, Why Your Sales Cycle is So Long (Hint: It’s Not About Your Solution), Being "On Message" Equals Higher Sales, How to get your Sales Team Motivated & Crushing Targets, How CHOICE can make CLOSING Easier and Friend or Foe? to Guest articles. Added Respectful commitment to Blog!

13-Nov-11

Added Defending to Groups. Added Moore's Causal Theory of Excuse to Excuses. Added Refuting Excuses to Willpower. Started Bullying in Behaviors and Explanations with What is Bullying?. Added Lower and Slower to Speaking Tips. Added Part 2.1: Expense to The Annotated Art of War. Added 4 Well-Intended Comments That Suck The Life Out Of People, Provocation-based selling: proving pain does not close a sale, Lessons Learned from Steve Jobs, Manage Things, Lead People, If You Have Rapport With Your Customers, They Are More Likely To … and Use a Contest to Increase Sales and Build Morale to Guest articles. Added 11-11-11, 11:11 to Blog!

06-Nov-11

Added Part 1.26: Calculations to The Annotated Art of War. Added Conformance to Groups. Added Apologia Models to Excuses. Added Remembering Values to Willpower. Added Manage the small talk to Steering the conversation. Added Locus of Control to Preferences. Added Fixing The Keyword Problem, Why the Customer Isn’t Always Right, Compensating our sales folks, To Train or Not to Train: Why Spend Money on Sales Training?, Lost In A Sea of Trouble, The real reason why your dreams are not coming true and Management vs. Leadership to Guest articles. Added Selling the future to Blog!

30-Oct-11

Added Parts 1.18-25: Deception to The Annotated Art of War. Added Common Fate and Cooperation to Groups. Added Justification and Excuse to Excuses. Added Changing Belief to Willpower. Added Manage the process to Steering the conversation Added How do Leaders create change that really works?, Assessing Our Ability to Influence Others, The Sales Rep Who Loved, and Why You Should Be Very Afraid, Overcoming Initial Resistance- We Just Want the Price, Pick Your Words to Deliver a Better Customer Experience, Why not Fire your Entire Sales Force?, The Red Team: A Simple But Effective Method to Improve Mission Planning, Spectator or Sportsman and “Buy on Emotion” now supported by brain scans to Guest articles. Added Activism and happiness to Blog!

23-Oct-11

Added Parts 1.15-17: Appreciate Advice to The Annotated Art of War. Added Minimum Group Size to Groups. Added Schlenker’s Triangle to Excuses. Added Getting others to do what they don't have to do to Articles About Change. Added Refusal to Willpower. Added Initiate new topics to Steering the conversation Added Why Your Customer Doesn’t Like Your Price, Do it Now!, So, what is Sales 2.0? ... Anyone?, Please Let Me Compliment Your Kid Without Ruining It, Big Marketing Power in a Little Word, To Tell The Truth and Do you really understand how your buyers buy? to Guest articles. Added The fame curve to Blog!

16-Oct-11

Added Parts 1.13-14: Seven Considerations to The Annotated Art of War. Added Synchrony and Cooperation to Groups. Added Linkage and Valence to Excuses. Added Replacement to Willpower. Added Steering the conversation to Conversation techniques with Control answering of questions. Added Conflict Resolution: Why Fighting Makes Things Better, Six ways to engage your entire organization, Selling doesn’t cause buying, What "We're Not Buying Today" Really Means. Overcoming Initial Resistance in Sales, Some Very Worrying Facts About Customer Service and Drop tart tone to Guest articles. Added How To Click With People to Book reviews. Added Are long queues to pay a good thing? to Blog!

09-Oct-11

Started The Annotated Art of War in Warfare, with Parts 1.1-2: Importance and Parts 1.3-12: Five Constant Factors. Added Minimum Group Bonding to Groups. Added A Good Excuse to Excuses. Added Added Cost to Willpower. Added Self-Regulation Theory to Academic Theories. Added StorySelling “How to Write Mini User Stories”, Are Followers the Leaders of the Future?, Karma: Is It Woo-Woo Or Is It Real?, What is a seller's priority?, What separates the Great Sales Pros from ‘the rest’? Probably not what you first think… and Lower the pressure to Guest articles. Added Review: Fearless Change to Book reviews. Added Steve Jobs, Genius to Blog!

02-Oct-11

Added Natural Comforters to Managing Stress. Added The Power of Minorities to Groups. Added Unlikely to Excuses. Added Interruption to Willpower. Added Short pauses to Speaking Tips. Added Amplification Hypothesis to Academic Theories. Added The Four Step Process I Use When Probing For Pain, 9 Sales Steps that Influence a Buying Decision, The Terrible Thing That Happened While I Wasn’t Looking, StorySelling: How to get past your Buyer’s defensive wall and create a need and Why is SALES such a Dirty Word? to Guest articles. Added Book Review: The Five Percent by Peter Coleman to Book reviews. Added A pattern of change to Blog!

25-Sep-11

Added Subjective Well-Being to Ways to Happiness. Added Boundary Management to Groups. Added Transcendence to Excuses. Added How Will Fails to Willpower. Added Types of Model to Models. Added 9 Easy Ways to Get Your Brand Recognized, Empathy & Innovation: An Unexpected Pairing That Will Solve Any Problem, How Big Are You Thinking?, How to Gain Speed and Velocity For More Referrals (part one), How to make a Proper Cold Call from Scratch: Part Two and What happens when you look at someone? to Guest articles. Added Bias and imagination to Blog!

18-Sep-11

Added Stop Judging to Ways to Happiness. Added Induction to Groups. Added Social Priority to Excuses. Added Willpower as Muscle to Willpower. Added Process Scripts to Models. Added Valence Effect to Academic Theories. Added How do you buy? Steps in a buying decision, A Lesson in sales from... The British Automotive Industry, How To Differentiate Yourself in 1 Minute Flat, Why I Study Seemingly Impossible Conflicts, The Only Way to Handle Price Objections, Effects-Based Thinking Part III and How to make a Proper Cold Call from Scratch: Part One. to Guest articles. Added Listening changes to Blog!

11-Sep-11

Added Positivity principle to Persuasion principles. Added Types of Entry to Groups. Added Restitution to Excuses. Added Domination to Willpower. Added Scripts to Models. Added The New World of SellingWho’s in the meeting – and who’s not?, Don't Let Sleep Disorders Prevent you From Being Healthy, Social Media as a Negotiating Tool, Writing Shortcuts That Make You More Successful And Better Loved, The Last, Last, Last Chance To Close The Sale and Using the Will: Key Points to Guest articles. Added Presenting values and 9/11: Ten years after to Blog!

04-Sep-11

Added Group Types to Groups. Added Provocation to Excuses. Started Willpower in Techniques for Changing Minds with What is Willpower? and Self-Control. Added Mental Models to Models. Added Sales Skills needed in the Cloud, Marketing automation follows a small segment of the buying decision path, How To Get Beyond The Gatekeepers While Job Hunting, Purpose Vs. Perfection: Why One Makes You Happy And The Other Makes You Miserable, What Are You Selling?, The How-To Sales Guide. How to Learn How to Sell and Today, Knowledge Really is THE Power! to Guest articles. Added Flowing into change to Blog!

28-Aug-11

Added Keep Busy to Ways to Happiness. Added CHaR to Sales methods. Added Berne's Six Hungers to Needs. Added Ego Depletion to Academic Theories. Added Progressive Demands to Conversion techniques. Added Mindful Presence, Why Salespeople Fail – & a Free Sales Health Check, How To Win The Hearts And Minds Of Other People, 5 Tips To Ensuring Your Resume Produces Top Results, Effects-Based Thinking: Part II and Lead Scoring Misses the Point to Guest articles. Added Change frustrations to Blog!

21-Aug-11

Started Models in Explanations, including Life Scripts. Added Moral Indignation to Excuses. Added Using Images to Persuade to More persuasion methods. Added Single Sufficiency to Ways to Happiness. Added Power and Lies to Power. Added Why Written Communication Matters More than Ever (And How to Write Well Even If You Weren't an English Major), The Leadership Formula, How to Encourage Sales To Think Like a CEO, Before You Sell Anything, You Have To Sell Yourself, 5 Reasons Jobseekers Should Use Twitter, How to get your Sales Team Motivated & Crushing Targets, and Selling Tips and Techniques to Increase Your Sales Performance to Guest articles. Added Repercussions of Rudeness to Blog!

14-Aug-11

Added Self-Control and Trust to Trust. Added Satisfy Needs to Ways to Happiness. Added Persuade by Pride, Not Shame to More persuasion methods. Added Fatigue to Academic Theories. Added Misunderstanding to Excuses. Added Types of speech to Public Speaking Articles. Added Strategic Planning and Effects-Based Thinking: Part 1, New Sales Techniques are Required in Today’s Economic Climate, Me? In La-La Land?, What, exactly, is a Relationship Manager?, 9 of the Best Sales Tips For High Performing Sales People, 7 Ways to Have a Great Life, Persuasion Principles: Getting People To Do What You Want to Guest articles. Added Becoming fearless to Blog!

07-Aug-11

Added Evolution and Cooperation to Evolution. Added Decision Points to Decisions. Added Managing Mistakes to Waiting Table. Added Invariance to Perception. Added Minimization to Excuses. Added Speaker Credibility to Public Speaking Articles. Added Change management and sales: influencing the buying decision path, Commission Only a Zero Sum Game, Activity Based Planning Leads to More Consistent Results and Recruit Your "Champions" to Help Spread the Word About Your Organization to Guest articles. Added Moving politicians to Blog!

31-Jul-11

On holiday. Cruising up and down the Danube.

24-Jul-11

Added Rationing to Sales articles. Added Status to Relationships. Added Warmth and Competence to Emotions. Added Multistability to Perception. Added Illness to Excuses. Added Presentation and Learning Style to Public Speaking Articles. Added The How-To Sales Guide. How to Learn How to Sell, Why People Become Extremists During Arguments, Winning Is All About Influencing, 5 Reasons Why Recruiters Are Using Twitter for Recruitment — and why jobseekers should take notice!, The buyer's buying process vs. the sales model: two divergent roads and Don't rain on the parade  to Guest articles. Added Brown eyed dominance to Blog!

17-Jul-11

Added Mere Thought Effect to Academic Theories. Added Ask, Don't Tell to Articles on Tipping. Added Appeal to Flattery to Fallacies. Added Reification to Perception. Added Good Intention to Excuses. Added Audience-Centered Speaking to Public Speaking Articles. Added Customer Alchemy – Creating Better Customer Relationships, A Powerful Sales Technique Courtesy of Honest Abe, Go Ahead and Fire Your Customer, Don't Settle for Good Enough and Tune into others to Guest articles. Added Fruit looking good to Blog!

10-Jul-11

Added Patterns in Personality Disorders to Personality Disorders. Added Attack Negativity to Resisting persuasion. Added Emergence to Perception. Added Forgetting to Excuses. Added Public Speaking Articles with Benefits of Public Speaking and The Fear of Public Speaking to Public Speaking and Presentation. Added Achieve Your Sales Goals Using the Power of the Mind, Should You Be a Big Fish in Two Ponds?, Why Avoiding Conflict Keeps You Trapped In It Forever, The Killer Sales App and Remember The Big Things to Guest articles. Added Crisis reactions to Blog!

03-Jul-11

Added Why we lie to Lying. Added Find Religion to Ways to Happiness. Added Regularity to Perception. Added External forces to Excuses. Added Understanding Regulations to Public Speaking and Presentation. Added Walls or Windows: An Active Approach to a Superior Work Environment, Where does the buy-cycle start?, Networking as Your Sole Marketing Vehicle and Have You Got the Courage to Ask? to Guest articles. Added Successful Change to Book reviews. Added Is showing qualifications boasting? to Blog!

26-Jun-11

Added Positive Nostalgia to Ways to Happiness. Added Wrong Reason to Resisting persuasion. Added Pr?nanz to Perception. Added Distraction and Explaining to Excuses. Added Preparing the room to Public Speaking and Presentation. Added Let’s Talk Leadership: Give More to Get More!, Why giving everyone a trophy dumbs down the country, What are we paying our sales folks to do? and What did you learn from the last sale you lost? to Guest articles. Added The loneliness of the internal change agent to Blog!

19-Jun-11

Added Research Observations About Lying to Lying. Added Plutchik's Ten Postulates to Evolution. Added Hidden Agenda to Resisting persuasion. Added Counterattack and Deflection to Excuses. Added Seating Arrangements to Public Speaking and Presentation. Added Putting a Lid on Cold Calling, Engage Your Prospect's Learning Style, An Easy Fix: Getting Rid of Clich? Will Make Your Organization's Communication More Effective and Three techniques of top performers to Guest articles. Added In the press to Blog!

12-Jun-11

Added Imitation to Evolution. Added Positive Reversal to Ways to Happiness. Added Threat Assessment to Meaning. Added Bolstering and Common Practice to Excuses. Added Common Fate to Perception. Added Catering Arrangements to Public Speaking and Presentation. Added 14 Signs You are a Sales Zombie, 3 Ways To Get Out of a Sales Slump Fast, Are Your Communication Strategies Really Engaging Employees?, Not Selling? Might Be Your Attitude! and How to evaluate the individuals in your network to strengthen/broaden your network to Guest articles. Added Expect positive negotiations to Blog!

05-Jun-11

Added Appeal to Spite to Fallacies. Added Trivializing to Resisting persuasion. Added Excuses to Conversation techniques, starting with Acceptance and Accident. Added Meet the Staff and Explore The Venue to Public Speaking and Presentation. Added Self-Compassion to Ways to Happiness. Added Symmetry to Perception. Added Lessons from the Sales Field, Relax, You’ve Arrived, My thoughts about life trials and fate and First Contact: what to do, why, and how to get better results to Guest articles. Added Happiness is an option to Blog!

29-May-11

Added Invoke Rules to Negotiation tactics. Added Power Corrupts to Power. Added Disgust to Emotions. Added Six Elements of Special Operations to Articles on Warfare. Added Take A Break to Ways to Happiness. Added Similarity to Perception. Added Sales Habits, Don't Shoot from the Hip, Use a Script and Help Buyers Choose the Buying Decision Team: a case study to Guest articles. Added Have a heart, youngster! to Blog!

22-May-11

Added Untried to Resisting persuasion. Added Heart, Head, Hands to Sequential Requests. Added Working the Diagonals and  Walking On Stage to Public Speaking and Presentation. Added Narcissistic Personality to Personality Disorders. Added Closure and Proximity to Perception. Added Is Selling an Art or a Science?, Discounting to Create Cash Flow? Be Careful., Does Your Manager Have Leadership Skills? How Do You Know? and How to Handle Unsolicited Feedback to Guest articles. Added Connecting with celebs to Blog!

15-May-11

Added Inadequate to Resisting persuasion. Added Reification to Fallacies. Added Simplicity Principle to Persuasion principles. Added Young Male Syndrome to Evolution. Started Perception in Explanations with Gestalt Theory including Figure/Ground and Continuation. Added The Importance of Customer Service, Cross-Selling Takes Teamwork, 17 Best Practices of Top Performing Sales People and Buyers don't sit and wait for sellers to Guest articles. Added Connecting with your audience to Blog!

08-May-11

Added Final Request to More persuasion methods. Added Humanism and coaching to Coaching. Added Bad Idea to Resisting persuasion. Added Early Knowers to Diffusion. Added Distraction and Lying to Lying. Added Lessons from a Shopping Mall, Tips To Inspire The Sales Team, Conceive, Believe and Achieve!, How to Master a 30 Minute Sales Meeting and The Buyer’s Decision Path: why it’s important to sellers to Guest articles. Added Consultants and wagging the dog to Blog!

01-May-11

Added The Benefits of Trusting to Trust. Added Penny and Bun to Resisting persuasion. Added Echo Questions to Questioning Techniques. Added Contempt to Emotions.  Added Shock Opener to Parts of the Presentation in Public speaking. Added Complexity: The Execution Challenge You Don't See, The Dog Ate My Resume—How to Justify Work History Gaps, Sales Techniques and a Consultative Selling Guide for Today's Marketplace, How To Run An Effective Meeting and Why Aren’t Our Prospects Buying: the problem sales can’t solve to Guest articles. Added Royal wedding exhaustion to Blog!

24-Apr-11

Added Social Desirability to Motivation. Added Incremental Persuasion to More persuasion methods. Added Three Levels of Interpretation to Meaning. Added Too Much to Resisting persuasion. Added Dodging the Question to Questioning Techniques. Added Personalisation Opener to Parts of the Presentation in Public speaking. Added Sales Management Process: How to Improve Your Sales Team’s Effectiveness in a “Reset” Economy, Sweeping the Corners, How Not to Work Evenings & Weekends and How To Deal With Criticism From Your Sales Manager to Guest articles. Added Chatting up men to Blog!

17-Apr-11

On holiday! Venice then cruise around the Greek Islands. Beautiful.

10-Apr-11

Added Seek Advice to Building Rapport. Added Gotcha to Resisting persuasion. Added Experiential Language to Persuasive Language. Added Psychopathic Personality to Personality Disorders. Added Amplification Opener to Parts of the Presentation in Public speaking. Added Open Questions and Closed Questions to Questioning techniques. Added Status Quo: How to help the Buyer change?, Are You Giving Away Your Profit?, The Secrets Of Inspirational Leadership, Sales Recruiting: A Talent Acquisition That Works and Sales Management: How to Find The Right Talent to Guest articles. Added Government, health, trust, knights and knaves to Blog!

03-Apr-11

Added Rules of Evolution to Evolution. Added Future Language to Persuasive Language. Added Propagate Problem to Resisting persuasion. Added Obsessive-Compulsive Personality to Personality Disorders. Added Puzzle Opener to Parts of the Presentation in Public speaking. Added Rediscovering Our Passion For Selling, “What Side of the Ball Do You Want to Play On?” The Importance of Listening, How To Quicken The Customer Buy Cycle, How To Improve Sales Negotiation Skills, Refresh your Lead Generation Process in 3 Easy Steps and What Leadership Was And What Leadership Has Become to Guest articles. Added Why April fools? to Blog!

27-Mar-11

Added Limits to Repetition to Using repetition. Added Beauty to Evolution. Added Complicated to Resisting persuasion. Added Relationship Development Stages to Relationships. Added Dependent Personality to Personality Disorders. Added Watch the Audience to Public speaking. Added The Best Information Comes From Short Questions, 30 Minutes To Closing More Sales- Part 2, The Benefit of Safety Debriefing – Developing a Culture of Learning through Lessons Learned and How to Gain Higher Profits with Customer Service to Guest articles. Added Chewing on stress to Blog!

20-Mar-11

Added Possibility Language to Persuasive Language. Added Residue Reasoning to Types of Reasoning. Added AAB Pattern to More persuasion methods. Added Knapp's Relational Development Model to Relationships. Added Avoidant Personality to Personality Disorders. Added Resume / CV Broadcasting Tips to Job Finding. Added Voice Roll to Public speaking. Added It’s Better to Be Different than It Is to Be Better, Einstein’s Kids Never Asked Him for Help With Their Math Homework, Effective Sales Management: The Importance of Sales Intelligence and Your Customer’s PIR: Price Investment Ratio to Guest articles. Added Being nice is good for you to Blog!

13-Mar-11

Added Slogans to Propaganda. Added Not Now to Resisting persuasion. Started Relationships in Explanations with Devito's Relationship Stages. Added Histrionic Personality to Personality Disorders. Added Email tips for job-hunters to Job Finding. Added Using Questions and Using Props to Public speaking. Added How to Be a True Leader and a Better Manager, Sales Techniques: Do You Want To Be A Million Dollar Sales Representative?, Qualities of a Sales Manager: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership – Part 2, Self-Programming For Leadership and Top 10 Ways To Stay Motivated In Sales to Guest articles. Added Judging eye-witness accuracy to Blog!

06-Mar-11

Added Sales Body Language to Sales articles. Added Evolution to Explanations including Mutation and Natural Selection. Added Borderline Personality to Personality Disorders. Added References / Referees to Job Finding. Added Using Your Voice and Using Flipcharts to Public speaking. Added Who Protects Your Greatest Vulnerability?, Sales Trends: The New Norm, 30 Minutes to Closing More Sales- Part 1, The cheapest cure for feeble Mindedness: a dose of Madness and Qualities of a Sales Manager: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership – Part 1 to Guest articles. Added Multiculturalism or integration to Blog!

27-Feb-11

Added Stroke a Dog to Ways to Happiness. Added Too Hard to Resisting persuasion. Added Antisocial Personality to Personality Disorders. Added How to Get Your Resume/CV Noticed to Job Finding. Added Use Technology and Using Your Body to Public speaking. Added Moving The Focus Away From The Leaders To The Followers, Top 10 Sales Coaching Tips To Improve Your Listening Skills and How to Confront Without Conflict to Guest articles. Added Out of the Box Marketing to Book reviews. Added Revolution, change and disappointment to Blog!

20-Feb-11

Added Schizotypal Personality to Personality Disorders. Added Hug Somebody to Ways to Happiness. Added Hugging to Using Body Language. Added Personal Information to Job Finding. Added classification pages to Figures of speech, including Amplification, Distortion, Emotion, Excess, Falsehood, Grammar, Hidden meaning, Humor, Meaning, Omission, Questioning, Rearrangement, Reasoning, Reduction, Reference, Repetition, Reversal, Sound and Substitution. Added Transitioning to Public speaking. Added Change management - a failure of structure and denial, 20 Tips From A Sales Coach To Increase Sales Productivity, The Nature Of Successful Leadership and Using Consultative Sales Techniques to Win Business Faster to Guest articles. Added Banishing blushing to Blog!

13-Feb-11

Started Personality Disorders in Personality with Paranoid Personality and Schizoid Personality. Added Fixing attention to Techniques of hypnotism. Added Activities to Job Finding. Added Zeugma to Figures of speech. Added Signpost and Speaking don'ts to Public speaking. Added The Secret Power of Commitments-Part 2, Leadership--Some Thoughts About Greatness and Fifty Cent … Not the Musician, the Deal Breaker to Guest articles. Added Harmonising and sensitivity to Blog!

06-Feb-11

Added The Big Lie to Propaganda. Added Force Multiplication to Articles on Warfare. Added Double Bind to More persuasion methods. Added Professional Membership to Job Finding. Added Tricolon to Figures of speech. Added Speak Expressively and Use Sensory Language to Public speaking. Added Top 5 Tips to Craft a Persuasive ArgumentRoberta Matuson’s Top 10 Tips for Managing Down, The Secret Power of Commitments and Healthy Living Is a Prerequisite for Success to Guest articles. Added The absent persuader to Blog!

30-Jan-11

Added Perceptual language to Persuasive Language. Added Kelman's Process of Opinion Change to Overall persuasion methods. Added Pre-thanking to More persuasion methods. Added Awards to Job Finding. Added Tmesis to Figures of speech. Added Set the Tone and Show You Care to Public speaking. Added Where’s Waldo? He’s in Texas Along With Your Sales Career, Five Reasons Why Nothing Has Changed in Your Organization and What Jordan Can Teach You About Selling to Guest articles. Added The second-oldest profession to Blog!

23-Jan-11

Added Theory of Mind to Academic Theories. Added Addressing Concerns to Change Techniques. Added Buying Process Management to Sales articles. Added Education to Job Finding. Added Tautology to Figures of speech. Added Reference Other Speakers and Repeat Key Phrase to Public speaking. Added Top 10 Tips For Managing Up in a Top Down World, A sale: objective or outcome? and Transforming our self-critical voice in our head into becoming a support to Guest articles. Added Competition, performance and cheating to Blog!

16-Jan-11

Added How Successful Businesses Fail to Leadership articles. Added Interrupted Routine to Story devices. Added Paraverbal Indicators of Lying to Lying. Added PARs to Job Finding. Added Subreption to Figures of speech. Added Memorize Key Points and Think Generously to Public speaking. Added Sales questions are hot now, Stop Taking It Personally and Harness the Power of Your Customers' Testimonials to Guest articles. Added How cats persuade to Blog!

09-Jan-11

Added Churchill and the Salt Cellar to Analysis. Added Four Components of Diffusion to Diffusion. Added The neuroscience of financial bubbles to Brain articles. Added Work Experience to Job Finding. Added Spoonerism to Figures of speech. Added Managing Attention and Managing Mistakes to Public speaking.  Added Why your Dentist is named Dennis, not James, Selling Refrigerators to Eskimos and In praise of Socrates, mediocrity, and stability with a nod to where Plato was coming from to Guest articles. Added The Persuasion God to Blog!

02-Jan-11

Added Truth by Association to More persuasion methods. Added Go For A Walk to Negotiation tactics. Added Evolution and Pleasure to Happiness. Added Objective and Skills Summary to Job Finding. Added Synonymia to Figures of speech. Added Keep It Simple and Listen to the Audience to Public speaking.  Added Um Hi, The Heart of Sales and DiSC categories to Guest articles. Added Out with the old to Blog!

26-Dec-10

Added Mood Matching to Ways to Happiness. Added Connection Language to Persuasive Language. Added Header and Footer and Profile to Job Finding. Added Sententia to Figures of speech. Added Handling Questions and Hushing to Public speaking.  Added The Relationship between Masculine/Feminine and Parent/Child Dynamics, Thomas Edison was an idiot, and other motivational sayings and How to Warm Up a Cold Prospect to Guest articles.

19-Dec-10

Added Satir's Five Positions to Using Body Language. Added Peptides to Brain chemistry. Added Resume/CV Power Words and Scannable Resumes/CVs to Job Finding. Added Pun to Figures of speech. Added Getting Applause and Go with the Flow to Public speaking. Added We’re Getting Ready to Play Notre Dame, But All I’m Thinking about Is You, Calculator Carl and Other Un-hatched Chicken and Why Buyers Love to Delay Buying to Guest articles. Added Creative blinking and Happy Christmas to Blog!

12-Dec-10

Added Spending Time to Ways to Happiness. Added Oxytocin to Brain chemistry. Started Resume / CV in Job Finding with Types of Resume/CV and Resume/CV Language. Added Personification to Figures of speech. Added Eyeballing Individuals and Forget Yourself to Public speaking. Added In Praise of Einstein, Turn “Socializing” into “Networking” and What Does Your Customer Really Value? to Guest articles. Added Status anxiety to Blog!

05-Dec-10

Added Interruption principle to Persuasion principles. Added Fixing attention to Hypnotism. Added Non-Specific Hypothesis to Counseling. Added Psittacism to Figures of speech. Added Breathe and Control Your Speed to Public speaking. Added How to Get Your Entire Organization "On Message" Today, Overcoming the Dreaded Price Objection and Customize Your Presentation Style to Guest articles. Added Slow Down, Sell Faster to Book reviews. Added A Freudian slip to Blog!

28-Nov-10

Added Money and Happiness to Ways to Happiness. Added Ingratiation to More persuasion methods. Added Barrier Analysis to Diagnosing Change. Added Health Belief Model to Beliefs. Added The Non-Professional Counselor to Counseling. Added Paromoiosis to Figures of speech. Added Approach on Key Points and Be Conversational to Public speaking. Added Change management - a failure of structure and denial, Solving the Pharmaceutical Industry Woes and Thinking of Saving Future-Make investments that are reliable to Guest articles. Added Resuscitating a brand, confusing another to Blog!

21-Nov-10

Added Transactional Model of Stress to Stress. Added Status Game to Games. Added Counseling Success Factors to Counseling. Added Paroemion to Figures of speech. Added Cognitive Restructuring and Systematic Desensitization to Public speaking. Added Happiness at Work? Is it Possible? Yes, if You Know the Nuances of Happiness, Focus on the Most Fascinating Thing and Buyers have always been in control to Guest articles. Added Successful bragging to Blog!

14-Nov-10

Added Managing Timescales to Change Techniques. Added A Brief History of Counseling and Therapy to Counseling. Added Remote Negotiation to Negotiation styles. Added Parisosis to Figures of speech. Added Meet The Audience and Reframe Anxiety to Public speaking. Added Don't Waste a Challenging Economy, Six Powerful Prospecting Tips and Qualifying Leads: why lead scoring is inadequate to Guest articles. Added Anticipation, power and fat people to Blog!

07-Nov-10

Started Counseling in Disciplines with What is Counseling?. Added Remind Yourself to Ways to Happiness. Added Ponzi Scheme to Confidence tricks. Added Parison to Figures of speech. Added Personal Appearance and Learn, Learn to Public speaking. Added  Why Buyers Don’t Like Salespeople, How to Block the Competition and Managing the pushback we create to Guest articles. Added The Full Facts on Cold Reading to Book reviews.  Added Management links to Links. Added Gamblers' indirect illusion to Blog!

31-Oct-10

Added Empowering Questions to Questioning techniques. Added Deciding to Lie to Lying. Added How to Get Stressed and Own a Dog to Stress Management. Added Parisology to Figures of speech. Added Getting 'In The Zone' and Wear a Persona to Public speaking. Added Cultural Diversity: a Fait Accompli, Unselling What You Just Sold and Would You Like Fries With That? to Guest articles. Added Review: Become a Key Person of Influence to Book reviews. Added Gender befuddles to Blog!

24-Oct-10

Added Limiting Beliefs to Beliefs. Added Gullibility to Confidence tricks. Added Watch Comedy and How to say No to Stress Management. Added Paradox to Figures of speech. Added Babbling and Progressive Visualization to Public speaking. Added A Question of Leadership and What is a quality lead – and does it matter? to Guest articles. Added The new frontier to Blog!

17-Oct-10

Added Reframe Desire to Ways to Happiness. Added Progressive Experience and Progressive Relaxation to Stress Management. Added Paradeigma to Figures of speech. Added Listen to Yourself and Get Feedback to Public speaking. Added Digital Sales Activity: finding buyers too late in their journey, Top 10 Ways To Stay Motivated In Sales and Help Your Employees Do More in Less Time to Guest articles. Added Eye-witnesses and justice to Blog!

10-Oct-10

Added Change Strategy to Planning for Change. Started Stress Management in Techniques with Breathing Exercises and Cognitive Restructuring. Added Parachesis to Figures of speech. Started Preparing Yourself for Speaking in Public speaking with Practice, Practice and Watch Yourself. Added Can You See Where You’re Going: How to construct an effective organizational vision, Buyers want a shorter buying decision cycle and Use Smart PR to Communicate More Effectively NOW With Your Prospects to Guest articles. Added Aflac duck ads up to Blog!

03-Oct-10

Added Commitment Devices to More persuasion methods. Added Deception in negotiation to Negotiation articles. Added Will Power to Power. Added Oxymoron to Figures of speech. Added Powerpoint Tips, The 5 Ps and SQ3R to Public speaking. Added How to Create Compelling Sales Presentations with PowerPoint, e Learning Management Systems: Do “Learning Organizations” really outperform the competition? and The new relationship between sales and marketing: it’s harder for the sales folks to Guest articles. Added Second-hand support to Blog!

26-Sep-10

Added Stages of Personal Power to Power. Added Four Factors in Facial Expression to Lying. Added Spill Words to Modifying meaning. Added Optatio to Figures of speech. Added Finding the Focus, Balancing the Presentation and SCQA to Public speaking. Added Top 10 Sales Coaching Tips To Increase Sales Productivity, Fundamentals Beat Flash and In Our Hearts of Hearts We Know; Facing Illness and Death to Guest articles. Added Free! Or what? to Blog!

19-Sep-10

Added Assumptive Adverb Opener to Persuasive Language. Added Instant vs. Delayed Gratification to Preferences. Added Six Learning Styles to Learning Theory. Added Narratio to Figures of speech. Added Presentation Aids and Presentation Devices to Public speaking. Added Intellectual Capital and Your Sales Career, Depuzzle Human Behavior and What Are You Neglecting? to Guest articles. Added Is free will a bad thing? to Blog!

12-Sep-10

Added Myths of longevity to Neural Aging. Added Four Lying Domains to Lying. Added Malapropism to Figures of speech. Added Sectioning, Three Part Presentation and Tellem to Public speaking. Added Driven to Distraction: How Latest Trends Will Hurt You and I Heard It Through the Grapevine: How leaders can reduce damaging gossip to Guest articles. Added Brands from Birth to Blog!

05-Sep-10

Added Trust and Fear to Trust. Added Be Reliable to Building Rapport. Added Kolakeia to Figures of speech. Added Helping Them Decide, Microstructure and Structural Principles to Public speaking. Added You have a buying process problem, not a selling problem and How Would Your Customers Rate Your Service? to Guest articles. Added Realism works to Blog!

29-Aug-10

Added Small World Theory to Academic Theories. Added Passive Care to Building Rapport. Added Hypotaxis to Figures of speech. Added Identifying Objectives, Use Outlining and STOIC to Public speaking. Added The Certainty Of Misery Is Better Than The Misery Of Uncertainty and Ten Networking Blunders That Cost You Sales to Guest articles. Added In safe, cute hands to Blog!

22-Aug-10

Added Interview Question Worksheet to Interview questions. Added Anger to Fallacies. Added Hypozeuxis to Figures of speech. Added Research your Subject, The Purpose of Speaking and Planning the Presentation to Public speaking. Added Buying Decision Enablement: put the human side of decision making into the work flow and Are You a Flexible Leader to Guest articles. Added Persuading parents to Bl\og!

15-Aug-10

Added Yaffe's Elements to Making the argument. Added Delayed Gratification to Motivation. Added Unilateral neglect to Brain dysfunction. Added Homoioteleuton to Figures of speech. Added Know Your Audience and Interview the Organizers to Public speaking. Added Serving Food to Tipping.  Added 5 Sales Coaching Steps To Formalize Your Sales Career Goals To Make Them A Reality and Your Buyer is Smarter than You to Guest articles. Added Obvious persuasion to Blog!

08-Aug-10

Added Using threats to Motivation. Added Leaders and PR disasters to Leadership actions. Added Confabulation to Brain dysfunction. Added Glossolalia to Figures of speech. Added Question Time and Next Steps to Public speaking. Added Seeding to Tipping.  Added A Better Approach with Purchasing Departments, Getting an Audience to Pay Attention When They Don’t, Won’t, or Can’t and 3 Ways to Avoid Being Invisible on the Trade Show Floor to Guest articles. Added Logic is not language to Blog!

01-Aug-10

Added Maximizing vs. minimizing to Preferences. Added Punch Words to Persuasive language. Added The Brain Syndrome to Brain dysfunction. Added Fictio to Figures of speech. Added Collaborative Close and The Clincher to Public speaking. Added Serving Wine to Tipping.  Added 10 Secrets to Creating a Sales Proposal That Doesn't Suck, Social Media: Why and How it Influences the Relationship and A-Game Selling in a Forever Changing Market to Guest articles. Added Persuading with food to Blog!

25-Jul-10

Added Transactional Model of Communication to Models of Communication. Added Blindsight to Brain dysfunction. Added Extraposition to Figures of speech. Added Thesis Confirmation and Learning Check to Public speaking. Added Taking the Order to Tipping.  Added How to Live Life to the Fullest, The 3 Secrets For Making People Like You and The Hidden Advantage of Disagreements to Guest articles. Added What is beauty? to Blog!

18-Jul-10

Added Preventing Lying  to Lying. Started Brain dysfunction with Aphasia. Added Exergasia  to Figures of speech. Added Summary and Key Points to Public speaking. Added What Jobs Get Tipped? to Tipping.  Added Sales Coach Tips: Top 4 Sales Excuses That Stop You From Winning More Clients, The Ripple Effect and Buying Facilitation? and Sales: the dynamic duo to Guest articles. Added The Gettysburg Approach to Writing and Speaking like a Professional to Book reviews. Added Emotion and music to Blog!

11-Jul-10

Added Praise to Motivation. Added Non-followership to Followership. Added Exemplum to Figures of speech. Added The Elevator Pitch and Preview to Public speaking. Added Waiter's Views to Tipping.  Added Listen While You Work, 32 Fatal Negotiating Mistakes That Cost Salespeople Money and The Steps to Buying: remembering the human element to Guest articles. Added Littering with disgust to Blog!

04-Jul-10

Added Body Language Reversal to Understanding body language. Added Unconscious Thought Theory to Academic Theories. Added Ethopoeia to Figures of speech. Added Greeting Opener and Statement of Benefits to Public speaking. Added The Importance of Mood in Waiting to Tipping.  Added A note to read when you are in a bad mood, Should Social Media Replace Cold-Calling? and Why Do Sales People Like Failure? to Guest articles. Added Who's in control of the bus? to Blog!

27-Jun-10

Added Relative happiness to Happiness. Added Post-traumatic growth to Coping Mechanisms. Added Quotation Opener and Thesis Statement to Public speaking. Added Become Personal, Insulting, Rude to The Art of Being Right. Added Maintaining Dignity and The Gender Difference in Waiting to Tipping.  Added "Call Me Next Week", Retention is a Problem That Won't Go Away and Buying Facilitation? and Sales: the dynamic duo to Guest articles. Added Body language and negotiating traffic to Blog!

20-Jun-10

Added Organismic valuing to Values and Motivation. Added Thinking and Lying to Lying. Added Sensory Opener and Story Opener to Public speaking. Added A Faulty Proof Refutes His Whole Position to The Art of Being Right. Added Finding the Right Waiting Job to Tipping.  Added Welcome to the Sales Jungle, Slowing Down to get in the Zone, Resistance To Change: inexplicable, irrational, and real to Guest articles. Added Review: Getting On With Kids In Secondary School to Book reviews. Added Thinking about doodles to Blog!

13-Jun-10

Added Activation Theory to Academic Theories. Started Public speaking in Techniques with Parts of the Presentation, adding Housekeeping, The Opener and Question Opener. Added Bewilder Your Opponent by Mere Bombast to The Art of Being Right. Added Dress for Success to Tipping. Added Five Reasons Why Sales Professionals Need A Vacation, Two Types of Decisions: Buy-IN, and BuyING and Prospecting - Building an Advocate Army to Guest articles. Added Psychological Billing to Blog!

06-Jun-10

Added Anxiety and Lying to Lying. Added Four motivations to Motivation. Added Memes to Diffusion. Added Epitrope to Figures of speech. Added Will is More Effective Than Insight to The Art of Being Right. Added Touch Them to Tipping. Added Cross-Selling Takes Teamwork, 9 Reasons Why Prospect's Don't Return Your Calls and The Steps of a Sale: from the buying decision to the close to Guest articles. Added The pleasure of mystery to Blog!

30-May-10

Added Find Benefit to Ways to Happiness. Added Burke's Five Elements of Dramatism to Storytelling articles. Added Anxiety to Emotions. Added Ecphonesis to Figures of speech. Added Don't Let Him Off The Hook to The Art of Being Right. Added Tell Them to Tipping. Added What I Learned From A Successful Small Business Owner About Sales, 15 Mistakes Sales Managers Make When Hiring New Sales Reps and All Decisions Involve Change Management: an insurance case study to Guest articles. Added Toilet Ads to Blog!

23-May-10

Added Critical Listening to Listening. Added Idea Bait to Diffusion. Started Organization Design in Change Management with Organizational Forms. Added Dysrhythmia to Figures of speech. Added It Applies in Theory, But Not in Practice to The Art of Being Right. Added Your Name to Tipping. Added Why Texting While You Workout Will Hurt You Inside The Gym As Well As Your Sales Results, Dating: The Essential Elements of a Successful Pick-Up and What We Can Learn About the Art of Persuasion from One Scene in Shakespeare's Richard III to Guest articles. Added Good trouble at Jamie's to Blog!

16-May-10

Added Optimism and Pessimism to Preferences. Added Bandwagon Effect to Diffusion. Added Drive Theory to Academic Theories. Added Diallage to Figures of speech. Added Put His Thesis Into Some Odious Category to The Art of Being Right. Added Sob Story to Tipping. Added Solutions are meaningless without Buy-In, Selling to the Four Temperament Styles and 16 Excuses Sales People Need to Stop Using to Guest articles. Added Duelling idealogues and the ancient prince to Blog!

09-May-10

Added Trust substitutes to Trust. Added Bias Correction to Academic Theories. Added Categoria to Figures of speech. Added This is Beyond Me to The Art of Being Right. Added Scoop the Door to Tipping. Added Three levels of happiness to Happiness. Added How to attract the opposite sex in 3 steps, A lesson in sales from... Henry Ford and The Sale You Can't Close to Guest articles. Added Non-stop negotiation to Blog!

02-May-10

Added Idea Immunization to Diffusion. Added Nose Shapes to Understanding body language. Added What are figures? to Figures of speech. Added Appeal to Authority Rather Than Reason to The Art of Being Right. Added Repeat the Order to Tipping. Added Happiness as a motivator to Happiness. Added Sales Training Tips from the Trenches, We Can't Understand Customers and Negotiating and the Three Ts: Trust, Time and Tactics to Guest articles. Added Talking to Mom to Blog!

25-Apr-10

Added Fable to Explanation devices and All story devices. Added Endowed Progress Effect to Academic Theories. Added Amplificatio and Antistrophe to Figures of speech. Added Persuade the Audience, Not The Opponent and Diversion to The Art of Being Right. Added Why You Should Laugh Your Way To Better Sales Results, Some Will, Some Won't, So What! and The Job of Sales Must Expand to Guest articles. Added Great presentation, great networking to Blog!

18-Apr-10

Added What does not make people happy? to Happiness. Added Seven Modes of Memetic Transmission to Diffusion. Added How To Eat Less to Articles on persuasion. Added Pre-emptive Thanks and Puzzle Them to Tipping.  Added Turn The Tables and Anger Indicates a Weak Point to The Art of Being Right. Added Great Leaders are Strong and Courageous in Tough Times, ProductCamp, Buy-In, and Change Management and The Dangers of Sales Professionals Working From a Home Office to Guest articles. Added A persuasive reason for speed limits to Blog!

11-Apr-10

Added Four Negotiation Strategies to Negotiation articles. Added Symbolic Convergence Theory to Academic Theories. Added Patriotic Message and Positive Forecast to Tipping.  Added State a False Syllogism and Find One Instance to The Contrary to The Art of Being Right. Added Buying Facilitation? and Sales: the dynamic duo, Is An Inbound Calling Center Right For Your Business? and Top 10 Sales Coaching Myths Exposed to Guest articles. Added Political conversion? to Blog!

04-Apr-10

Added Humor in selling to Using humor. Added Nose Shapes to Understanding body language. Added Like Them and Memory Master to Tipping.  Added Petitio Principii and Make Him Exaggerate his Statement to The Art of Being Right. Added The Leadership Secrets to Separate Yourself From Average Employees, How To Run A Sales Meeting With A Prospect: Keep It Simple! and Negotiation Checklist to Ensure a Successful Outcome to Guest articles. Added Review: 'Drive' by Dan Pink to Book reviews. Added Like father, like son to Blog!

28-Mar-10

Added Diversity and Equality to HR Articles. Added Expanding the Pie to Negotiation tactics. Added Arousal to Needs. Added Invisible Reminders and Kids First to Tipping.  Added Draw Conclusions Yourself and Meet him With a Counter-Argument as Bad as His to The Art of Being Right. Added Multicultural Competency in Counseling, Find Positive Leaders and Hold on Tight and 17 Best Practices of Top Performing Sales People to Guest articles. Added  Eat. Drink. Worry a bit. to Blog!

21-Mar-10

Added The Resonance model to Communication Methods. Added The Pratfall Effect to Academic Theories. Added Happy Face and Happy Introduction to Tipping.  Added Interrupt, Break, Divert the Dispute and Generalize the Matter, Then Argue Against it to The Art of Being Right. Added Doing What Works to Ways to Happiness. Added How Sales People WANT To Be Managed… And How They SHOULD Be Managed, The Basis of Sales Has Remained Stagnant and You Have a Unique Gift, and Your Gift is Your Leadership Influence to Guest articles. Added Do smoking warnings work? to Blog!

14-Mar-10

Added Weak Ties Theory to Academic Theories. Added Get Introduced and Give Candy to Tipping.  Added Arguments Ad Hominem and Defense Through Subtle Distinction to The Art of Being Right. Added Positively Unhealthy to Ways to Happiness. Added Unusual Cures for Boring Meetings, Pathways and Pitfalls to Clarifying Organizational Values and To The Degree You Give Others What They to Guest articles. Added Get rich quick? to Blog!

07-Mar-10

Added Doublethink to Beliefs. Added Elegant Exit and Get Down to Tipping.  Added Claim Victory Despite Defeat and Use Seemingly Absurd Propositions to The Art of Being Right. Added Optimal Happiness to Ways to Happiness. Added How to Train Cats and Salespeople, Dealing with the Dreaded Price Objection and Get Onto The Buying Decision Team On The First Call to Guest articles. Added How to get (but not win) an Oscar to Blog!

28-Feb-10

Added Yerkes-Dodson Law to Motivation. Added Luncheon Technique to More persuasion methods.  Added Boost the Bill and Compliment Them to Tipping.  Added Choose Metaphors That Support Your Proposition and Agree to Reject the Counter-Proposition to The Art of Being Right. Added Varying Experience  to Ways to Happiness. Added The Truth About Lying, Team Effort and Caution People! How Social Media Is Muddying the Waters for Perfectly Good Jobseekers … and How Companies are Letting it Happen to Guest articles. Added Teenage troubles over? to Blog!

21-Feb-10

Added The Confidence Trap to Beliefs. Started Tipping in Techniques with Be Efficient and Be the Boss. Added Dunbar's number to Groups. Added Take Advantage of The Nay-Sayer and Generalize Admissions of Specific Cases to The Art of Being Right. Added Unconditional Love to Ways to Happiness. Added A Law Against Poor Writing?, Lead Gen Isn't Enough and Selling is a Contact Sport: Keys to Effective Phone Calling to Guest articles. Added A strangely, princely, eccentric evening to Blog!

14-Feb-10

Added Punctuated Equilibrium to Groups. Added Proverb to Figures of speech. Added Make Your Opponent Angry and Questions in Detouring Order to The Art of Being Right. Added The Diffusion Vowel Pattern  to Diffusion. Added Social Networking to Ways to Happiness. Added Dreams for Change, Leadership Involves Helping Others Decide and Are You a Bridge Builder? to Guest articles. Added Bullying, revenge thinking and detachment to Blog!

07-Feb-10

Added Power in Organizations to Power. Added Restraint Bias to Academic Theories. Added Hypocorism to Figures of speech. Added Postulate What Has To Be Proved and Yield Admissions Through Questions to The Art of Being Right. Added Internal Diffusion Process to Diffusion. Added Retail Therapy to Ways to Happiness. Added Bad to Worse-6 Ways to Kill Workplace Productivity, Prospects Aren’t Really Prospects and Sales Lessons Learned From Selling in a Recession to Guest articles. Added Vivid self-persuasion to Blog!

31-Jan-10

Added Five Levels of Change to Planning for change. Added Body as Cue, Evidence, Persuasion to Using Body Language. Added Conceal Your Game and False Proposition to The Art of Being Right. Added Earlier Adopters and Ideas That Spread to Diffusion. Added Purging Unhappiness and Random Acts of Kindness to Ways to Happiness. Added Buying Facilitation? for Fund Raising: it’s much easier than sales, Principles of Persuasion and Ten ways to improve telemarketing to Guest articles. Added Illusory suddenness to Blog!

24-Jan-10

Added Persistence principle to Persuasion principles. Added Cohesion and Coupling to Groups. Added The Homonymy and Generalize Specific Statements to The Art of Being Right. Added Diffusion gaps and Epidemiology and Diffusion to Diffusion. Added Noticing and Linking and Positive Writing to Ways to Happiness. Added Turning a 'No' into a 'Yes', Surveys Encourage Customer Feedback and Leadership: The Way We’ve Always Done It? to Guest articles. Added When to be angry to Blog!

17-Jan-10

Added The Bradford Hill Criteria to Types of reasoning. Started The Art of Being Right in General persuasion techniques with The Basis of All Dialectic and The Extension. Added Contact Frequency and Diffusion and Surprise to Diffusion. Added Look Good and Mindful Immersion to Ways to Happiness. Added The Business Executive's Dilemma: Should I Promote My Top Sales Person to Sales Manager?, How to Achieve Your Sales in 2010 and Buying Facilitation vs. buyer facilitation to Guest articles. Added Working for tomorrow, luckily to Blog!

10-Jan-10

Added Side Payments to Negotiation tactics. Added Freedom to Needs. Added Brevitas  to Figures of speech. Added Blogs and Diffusion and Critical Mass to Diffusion. Added Lifelong Learning to Ways to Happiness. Added Only Seconds, 5 Books on Negotiations You Must Read, 3 Reasons It’s Important to Look at the Big Picture and Customers for Life! to Guest articles. Added East vs. West emotional expressions to Blog!

03-Jan-10

Added Powerful People to Power. Added Diffusion Curve and Laggards to Diffusion. Added Forgive and Forget and Healthy Body to Ways to Happiness. Added The Future of Sales, Six PR Tactics You Can Use TODAY to Win Visibility and Successful Communication to Guest articles. Added The Mask Theory of Eccentricity to Blog!

27-Dec-09

Added Early Majority and Late Majority to Diffusion. Added Expressing Gratitude and Expressive Writing to Ways to happiness. Added Eusystolism to Figures of speech. Added Burn Your Boat, The Business Executive's Dilemma: Should I Promote My Top Sales Person to Sales Manager? and Road to Success to Guest articles. Added Traditions and time to Blog!

20-Dec-09

Started Diffusion in Communication with Innovators and Early Adopters. Added Granfalloons and Form, Storm, Norm, Perform to Groups.  Added Contemplative life and Creative action to Ways to happiness. Added Bomphiologia to Figures of speech. Added The Art of Motivating Salespeople, Why do HR professionals continue to get it so wrong? and The Psychology of selling: Telemarketing to Guest articles. Added A Good Week to Blog!

13-Dec-09

Added Yalom's ultimate concerns to Needs. Added Log-rolling to Negotiation tactics. Added Act Happy and Constructive activism to Ways to happiness. Added Bdelygmia to Figures of speech. Added Sales Trends for 2010, LinkedIn Is a Waste Of a Sales Person's Time! and How to Deal With Stress Associated With Relationships to Guest articles. Added Being Positive to Blog!

06-Dec-09

Added Ask-the-Manager Close to Closing techniques. Added Parable to Explanation devices and All story devices. Added Anticipation to Emotions. Added Aligned integrity and Believing vision to Ways to happiness. Added Aureation to Figures of speech. Added Why can’t a buyer make quicker buying decisions?, Isolating Objections and How Healing The Inner Child Will Help Those "Sad Feelings" Go Away If You're a Parent and an Abuse Survivor to Guest articles. Added Jealous in love to Blog!

29-Nov-09

Added McDonald's passing by to Analysis. Added The Communicative Functions model to Politics. Added Achieving expertise and Active life to Ways to happiness. Added Pain thresholds to Preferences. Added Antirhesis to Figures of speech. Added How Do We Sell If We Don't Understand Needs?, Why do People Gamble? and RADAR: The consultative selling tool to utilize your natural strengths to Guest articles. Added Train chaos to Blog!

22-Nov-09

Started Ways to happiness in Techniques for Changing Minds, with Sensory hedonism, Achievable challenge and Devoted service. Added Positive psychology to Academic Theories. Added Apposition to Figures of speech. Added The Stress Factor - 3 secrets to increasing your stress “resistance”, The Art of Communicating and Why Sales People Hate Cold Calling  to Guest articles. Added Black to work to Blog!

15-Nov-09

Added Three motivations to work to Motivation. Added Calculator Close to Closing techniques. Added Admitting weakness to Leadership actions. Added Extensional devices to Modifying meaning. Added Synizesis to Figures of speech. Added Six Powerful Prospecting Tips, Sales Lessons Learned from a Raccoon and  AN A.W.A.R.D. To Help With Difficult Customers to Guest articles. Added Talk to the right ear to Blog!

08-Nov-09

Added Modalities of emotion to Emotions. Added Positive coping to Coping Mechanisms. Added Ownership principle to Persuasion principles. Added Management By Wandering Around (MBWA) to Leadership actions. Added Synesis to Figures of speech. Added RADAR, Am I a Thug Hugger? and Why Motivational Speakers Are The Key To Overcoming Learned Helplessness to Guest articles. Added Wise crowds, inside and out to Blog!

01-Nov-09

Added Acceptable lies to Lying. Added Four pleasures and Epicurean pleasure to Happiness. Added Hook and Sinker to Sequential requests. Added Defining leadership to Leadership articles. Added Syndeton to Figures of speech. Added Negotiating Shadows and 10 keys to sales success in a down economy to Guest articles. Added Cute kids to Blog!

23-Oct-09

Added Unthinking principle to Persuasion principles. Added Max-Neef needs to Needs. Added Two pleasures and Three pleasures to Happiness. Added Symploce and Synchysis to Figures of speech. Added Tell 'em and Sell 'em, Hot Button Exhibiting: Understanding the Emotional Buttons that Build Relationships & Sales and How To Improve Your Deal Making In Five Easy Steps to Guest articles. Added Engaging with Body Shop to Blog!

16-Oct-09

Added Four mythic forms to Storytelling articles. Added Veroff's taxonomy to Motivation. Started Happiness in Emotions, with What makes people happy? Added Epanados, Scesis onamaton and Simile to Figures of speech. Added If a tail is counted as a leg, Sales Coaching Cold Calling Tips and If At First You Don't Succeed to Guest articles. Added Broken windows to Blog!

10-Oct-09

Added Exemplar reasoning to Types of reasoning. Added Open honesty to Building rapport. Added Anabasis, Catabasis and Paregmenon to Figures of speech. Added Hospitality Executives Under Stress During Stressful Times Need Executive Stress Solutions, The Problem with Leadership: Why it is so hard for companies to find great leaders? and My Aha! Experience to Guest articles. Added The J.A. Sowell Family History to Book reviews. Added Lighting performance to Blog!

03-Oct-09

Added What salespeople need to know to Sales articles. Added The power of questions to Questioning techniques.  Added Praeteritio, Prolepsis and Repetitio to Figures of speech. Added Dirty Little Secrets, by Sharon Drew Morgen to Book reviews. Added How To Stay Positive, Human Resources in the Current Economy and Simma’s Seven Step Solution for Successful Inclusive Leadership to Guest articles. Added Can you become more emotionally intelligent? to Blog!

27-Sep-09

Added Holding gaze to Building rapport. Added Antiptosis, Inclusio and Ploce to Figures of speech. Added Invest in yourself, Executives Under Stress During Stressful Times Need Executive Stress Solutions and 10 Tips On Getting The Most Out Of Coaching to Guest articles. Added Bad taste, literally to Blog!

20-Sep-09

Added Co-location to Building rapport. Added Adjunction, Acutezza and Praecisio  to Figures of speech. Added Breaking It Down: Getting Things Done… Eventually, Focus on the future: Keeping layoff survivors engaged and How To Set Goals to Guest articles. Added Bikes on the train to Blog!

13-Sep-09

Added Daily Cost Close to Closing techniques. Added Syncope, Synecdoche and Tapinosis to Figures of speech. Added Stay in the Game, How The Most Creative People…Lack Creativity and Building Your Sales Metric Management System In 4 Easy Steps to Guest articles. Added Super-duper-superlatives to Blog!

06-Sep-09

Added Six tools for managing perception to Propaganda. Added Proparalepsis, Prosthesis and Synaloepha to Figures of speech. Added Education and Communication Build Commitment, Pick at the Scab and 4 Steps to Sales Training That Delivers ROI to Guest articles. Added The British Eccentric to Blog!

30-Aug-09

Added Classroom management tips to Classroom management. Added Fire Sale Close to Closing techniques. Added Apcope, Aphaeresis and Procatalepsis to Figures of speech. Added History - telescopes to the future, Back Off So We Don’t Communicate and Why The Top 10% Of Salespeople Never Have To Hard Sell to Guest articles. Added Does description help or hinder memory? to Blog!

23-Aug-09

Added Symptoms of addiction to Addiction. Added Discipline Book to Classroom management. Added Cledonism, Metathesis and Polyptoton to Figures of speech. Added 5 Ways to Gauge Sales Management Coaching, Some People Dream Of Worthy Accomplishments While Others Stay Awake And Do Them and 3 Surefire Ways to Get Your Customers to Say YES! to Guest articles.

16-Aug-09

On holiday. Blogs and photos here for Scotland and Cumbria.

09-Aug-09

Added CAGE addiction questions to Addiction. Added Sponge activities to Classroom management. Added Amphilogy, Metaplasmus and Epenthesis to Figures of speech. Added Sales Best Practice: Maintain good records about customers, 3 Steps to Hiring Top Performing Salespeople and Sales 2.0: 5 Things You Shouldn't Expect to Guest articles. Added Can you tell what people online are really like? to Blog!

02-Aug-09

Started Building rapport in Conversation techniques, with Active care and links to relevant other pages. Added Finish for homework to Classroom management. Added Pleonasm, Polyptoton and Polysyndeton to Figures of speech. Added Creative Process (#1) The Legacy, Voice Care for Coaches and Speakers and How Would Your Customers Rate Your Service? to Guest articles. Added Advertising in a recession to Blog!

26-Jul-09

Added Incentive-sensitization theory of addiction and Excessive appetites to Addiction. Added Parrhesia, Periphrasis and Perissologia to Figures of speech. Added The 5 Biggest Sales Management Coaching Blunders, Coaching: Communicating What Service You Provide and Creating A Culture of Leadership & Learning - EI Leadership vs. Situational Leadership to Guest articles. Added Photos in the office to Blog!

19-Jul-09

Added Craving and Four interpretations of addiction to Addiction. Added Paraprosdokian, Parataxis and Paronomasia to Figures of speech. Added What the Bleep is a Green Turtle?, The serious art of writing humor and Purposeful Leaders Make Meaning to Guest articles. Added Models, learning and the child inside to Blog!

12-Jul-09

Added Addiction to Explanations starting with What is addiction? and Further addiction problems. Added Paradiastole, Paraeneticon and Paralipsis to Figures of speech. Added Sit Up Straight and Pay Attention!, How to Lose a Prospect's Attention in 5 Seconds or Less and How To Engage Employees With Technology Based Change to Guest articles. Added Carbon simple to Blog!

05-Jul-09

Added Career Anchors to Job Finding and Needs. Added Shopping List Close to Closing techniques. Added Metalepsis, Metonymy and Oeonismos to Figures of speech. Added Robotic Selling, How to Boost Your Sales in a Down Market and How To Cascade Messages via Managers To Employees to Guest articles. Added Us and them and learned helplessness in change to Blog!

28-Jun-09

Added The Transtheoretical Model of Change to Academic Theories. Added Extra Information Close to Closing techniques. Added Meiosis, Merism and Merismos to Figures of speech. Added The Secret to Letting Go of Every Fear, Listen While You Work and Change Management and Employee Communication Strategies to Guest articles. Added Starting to read minds to Blog!

21-Jun-09

Added Self-Determination Theory to Academic Theories. Added Think About It Close to Closing techniques. Added Isocolon, Kenning and Litotes to Figures of speech. Added Employee Communication: 6 Steps to Communicate Change, Should You Care if Your Employees Love You? and Choose to Rise Above Yourself to Guest articles. Added A Virgin failure (and recovery) and Why music? to Blog!

14-Jun-09

Added Articles on persuasion to General persuasion techniques, including Fear and persuasion. Added Truth switching to Interrogation. Added Illeism, Innuendo and Irony to Figures of speech. Added The Value of Employee Engagement Surveys as Part of a Change Management Strategy, Hiring the Best Quickly and Five Ways to Boost Sales Using Visual Storytelling to Guest articles. Added We're more like others than we think and Hard sales at Sainsbury's to Blog!

07-Jun-09

Added Ten risk-perception factors to Meaning. Added Listing benefits to Sales articles. Added Hyperbole, Hypocatastasis and Hysteron proteron to Figures of speech. Added Order Taker or Selling Professional, The Secret of Having Everything You Want and How to Run an Effective Sales Meeting to Guest articles. Added Creating a successful website to Blog!

31-May-09

On holiday for a week. Photos here.

24-May-09

Added The ethics of hypnosis to Articles on hypnotism. Added Homophone, Hypallage and Hyperbaton to Figures of speech. Added Stop Using the Economy as an Excuse!, Seven Simple Exercises to Invite the Extraordinary Life and Beware of Hiring Your Competitor's Sales People to Guest articles. Added Goodhart's Law to Blog!

17-May-09

Added Artisan Close to Closing techniques. Added Euphemism, Hendiadys and Heterosis to Figures of speech. Added The Ripple Effect, Creativity Explored: Enhancement through Repetition and You Either Brighten The World Or Darken The World. What Are You Doing Today? to Guest articles. Added Better team decisions to Blog!

10-May-09

Added Active learning to Learning Theory. Added Uncertainty principle to Persuasion principles. Added Epistrophe, Erotema and Euche to Figures of speech. Added What is the ideal number of visits to a current customer to retain his loyalty?, Stress is like living in an ambulance and How to Lose Your Job without Being Fired to Guest articles. Added Extremist persuasion to Blog!

03-May-09

Added Information management to Propaganda. Added Similarity Close to Closing techniques. Added Enumeratio, Epanalepsis and Epanorthosis to Figures of speech. Added Strokes and Alzheimer's disease to Neural Aging. Added Top myths and facts about teamwork and Why Your Customers Don't Give A Damn About You! to Guest articles. Added Trafalgar Square T-Mobile Flash-mob Karaoke! to Blog!

26-Apr-09

Added Character assassination to Propaganda. Added Slow vs. fast hypnosis to Articles on hypnotism. Added Ellipsis, Enallage and Enjambment to Figures of speech. Added Age and creativity and Dementia to Neural Aging. Added Don't be a Communist Salesperson to Guest articles. Added Creating commitment  to Blog!

19-Apr-09

Added The edge of sleep to Articles on hypnotism. Added Distinctio, Dysphemism and Dystmesis to Figures of speech. Started Neural Aging in Brain stuff, with Aging in cells, Living longer and Myths of aging. Added How to Build Your Creativity: 4 Steps to Develop Your Creativity and Gain Confidence in Your Ideas and The 3 Levels of Leadership in an Organisation to Guest articles. Added Set up to fail to Blog!

12-Apr-09

Added State vs. trait to Articles on hypnotism. Added Crasis and Diacope to Figures of speech. Added Neurotransmitters, Monoamines, Amino acids, Glycine and Narcotic drugs to Understanding the brain. Added Show and Tell and The Rules of Selling to Guest articles. Added Extraversion, introversion and eccentricity to Blog!

05-Apr-09

Added Articles on hypnotism to Hypnotism with Live vs. recorded hypnosis. Added Climax, Consonance and Correctio to Figures of speech. Added Seratonin, Glutamate and Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) to Understanding the brain. Added Communication Works For Those Who Work At It and When The Hard Way Is The Easy Way to Guest articles. Added Expression, emotion and botox to Blog!

29-Mar-09

Added Opportunity Cost Close to Closing techniques. Added Catachresis, Cataphora and Chiasmus to Figures of speech. Added Dopamine pathways, Norepinephrine and Epinephrine to Understanding the brain. Added How to Read Your Prospect Like a Book!, How to Train Cats and Salespeople and Are You a Bridge Builder? to Guest articles. Added Jury duty to Blog!

22-Mar-09

Added Packard's eight hidden needs to Needs. Added Brachyology, Cacemphaton and Cacophony to Figures of speech. Added Brain subdivisions, Acetylcholine and Dopamine to Understanding the brain. Added Selling in Tough Times – From “Cronyism”… to Collaboration (The 5 C’s of Selling) to Guest articles. Added Neurogenesis and the edge of science to Blog!

15-Mar-09

Added Take-back gag to Using humor. Added Autoclesis, Auxesis and Brachyology to Figures of speech. Added Basal ganglia, Midbrain and Hindbrain  to Understanding the brain. Added How to Train Cats and Salespeople to Guest articles. Added Why sports? to Blog!

08-Mar-09

Added Cost of Ownership Close to Closing techniques. Added Assonance, Asterismos and Asyndeton to Figures of speech. Added Ventricular system, Cerebral cortex and Limbic system to Understanding the brain. Added 7 Strategies for Handling Last Minute Meetings and Sales Management Challenges in 2009 to Guest articles. Added Review: Emotional Capitalists to Book reviews. Added Cars are not cars to Blog!

01-Mar-09

Added Social Proof to Persuasion principles. Added Aposiopesis, Apostrophe and Archaism to Figures of speech. Added Inter-neuron communication, Forebrain and Left and right brain to Understanding the brain. Added Leaders Handle Performance Problems and The Top 10 Reasons People Fail To Close The Sale to Guest articles. Added Subliminal Persuasion to Book reviews. Added Four degrees of separation that help simplify work and Brilliant business spam to Blog!

22-Feb-09

Added Grid-group cultural theory to Culture. Added Aphorismus, Apophasis and Aporia to Figures of speech. Added Schwann cells, Blood-brain barrier and Neural electronics to Understanding the brain. Added Get Free of Economic Doom – Watch the Stories you Tell Yourself and Are You a Bridge Builder? to Guest articles. Added Be conscientious, live longer to Blog! And went to Iceland - here's the photos.

15-Feb-09

Added Three voter heuristics to Politics. Added Neurons, Neuron internals and Glia to Understanding the brain. Added Antisthecon, Antithesis and Antonomasia to Figures of speech. Added The Strength Deployment Inventory and LeadershipIs arrogance creeping in on you? and Talking Is Sharing, But Listening Is Caring to Guest articles. Added Obama, history and hope to Blog!

08-Feb-09

Added Rational Close to Closing techniques. Started Understanding the brain in Brain stuff with Physiological psychology, The nervous system and Neural directions. Added Antimetabole, Anthypophora and Antiphrasis to Figures of speech. Added The Truth About Lying, Begin at the Beginning: 3 Secrets for Success and Do You Make These 7 Stupid Selling Mistakes? to Guest articles. Added How to get teenagers to tidy their room to Blog!

01-Feb-09

Added Give-take close to Closing techniques. Added Concrete metaphor to Metaphor. Added Antanaclasis, Antanagoge and Anthimeria to Figures of speech. Added The Quirky Way to Problem Solving, Clarifying Our Core Values and Meetings Always Take Time to Guest articles. Added Gifts, guys and gals to Blog!

25-Jan-09

Added Thinking, linearity and stories to Storytelling articles. Added Exclusivity Close to Closing techniques. Added Anapodoton, Anastrophe and Anesis to Figures of speech. Added Sales Strategies for a Tough Economy, Adversity Gives You Strength, Personal Renewal and Don’t Ask For Referrals! to Guest articles. Added The Coffee Effect to Blog!

18-Jan-09

Added  Adaptive mechanisms, Attack mechanisms, Avoidance mechanisms, Behavioral mechanisms, Cognitive mechanisms and Conversion mechanisms to Coping Mechanisms. Added Anamnesis, Anangeon and Anaphora to Figures of speech. Added How to Build Trust and Rapport Quickly, Strong Arm Sales Stop Success Cold and The Trust Factor to Guest articles. Added Persuasion: The Art of Getting What You Want, by Dave Lakhani to Book reviews. Added Obama and the mouth clamp to Blog!

11-Jan-09

Added Help-rejecting complaining to Coping Mechanisms. Added A brief history of rhetoric to Rhetoric. Added Anacrusis, Anadiplosis and Analogy to Figures of speech. Added The Unprecedented Sales Management Challenge for 2009, Actions Speak Louder Than Words and Know Your Strengths: Evaluating Your Skill Set to Guest articles. Added Justice and the mendacious ape to Blog!

04-Jan-09

Added Superstition to Beliefs. Added Rhetoric to Disciplines, with Barthes' rhetoric and Durand's rhetoric. Added Anacoenosis, Anacoloutha and Anacoluthon to Figures of speech. Added Burn Your Boat!, Good lessons from bad bosses and When You Throw Dirt, All You Do Is Lose Ground to Guest articles. Added New year, tradition and superstition to Blog!

28-Dec-08

On holiday!

21-Dec-08

Added The Town to Memory methods. Added Striking and Touching to Body Language Core patterns. Added Amphibology, Ampliatio and Anacephalaeosis to Figures of speech. Added 2008 Customer Service Hall of Shame, How to Engage the Interviewer & Beat the Competition! and The Sales Person's One-Word Job Description to Guest articles. Added Sausages, sizzle and sensory stimulation and Changing a politician's mind? to Blog!

14-Dec-08

Added Provocation to Coping Mechanisms. Added Repeating and Shaping to Body Language Core patterns. Added Alleotheta, Allusion and Alliteration to Figures of speech. Added Getting the Change Process right using the Human Needs Model, How to Avoid Self-Sabotage, Memory and Motivation Is Not Enough: If You Motivate An Idiot, All You Have Is A Motivated Idiot  to Guest articles. Added Sick opportunities to Blog!

07-Dec-08

Added DARVO to Coping Mechanisms. Added Closing and Enacting to Body Language Core patterns. Added Cognitive methods in coaching to Schools of thought in coaching. Added Affirmatio, Aganactesis and Allegory to Figures of speech. Added Sales Strategies for Strategic Selling, The Secret Weapon Every Savvy Exhibitor Should Use and The 3 Rules of Successful Selling to Guest articles. Added Testing times and Spam tricks to Blog!

30-Nov-08

Added Kipper management to Leadership articles. Added Adynaton, Asteismos and Aetiologia to Figures of speech. Added Moving forward, Opening and Preening to Body Language Core patterns. Added How CEO’s can be more effective in attracting & retaining senior staff, Goal Setting and Resistance in the Creative Process Discipline or Willingness? and Engagement is an Inside Job to Guest articles. Added War and Peace to Blog!

23-Nov-08

Added Dysfunctional patterns to Gender. Added Emotionality to Coping Mechanisms. Added Core patterns to Using Body Language, starting with Crossing, Expanding and Moving away. Added Acyron and Adianoeta to Figures of speech. Added Face Your Dragon, Principles of Persuasion and Always on the Grow to Guest articles. Added Do something amazing and Christmas, crisis and bargains to Blog!

16-Nov-08

Started Schools of thought in coaching in Coaching, with Psychoanalysis and coaching and Behaviorism in coaching. Started Figures of speech in Use of Language with Acoloutha, Accismus and Anacoloutha. Added ABC analysis to Conditioning. Added Creative Process and Tempering the Inner Critic, Being trustworthy won’t make you a Trusted Adviser! and Developing a Team or Organization Vision to Guest articles. Added Doors and ads to Blog!

09-Nov-08

Added Analysis of Barack Obama's Victory Speech to Analysis. Added Reinforcement to Conditioning. Added Self-harming to Coping Mechanisms. Added Assessing the client, The First Meeting and The Presenting Problem to Coaching. Added Plan, plan, plan and Developing class rules to Classroom management. Added Sales Manager: Job Title or Specialized Skill, Bite Your Tongue and Customers for Life! to Guest articles. Added Getting in the votes and Guilty secrets and confession to Blog!

02-Nov-08

Added A brief history of Behaviorism to Conditioning. Added Coaching vs. Therapy and Transference and counter-transference in coaching to Coaching. Added Altruism to Coping Mechanisms. Added Using their name, Responding to bad behavior and Learn the person to Classroom management. Added The Strangest Secret, Identify Your Stress Triggers and When You Throw Dirt, All You Do Is Lose Ground to Guest articles. Added Cults and abuse to Blog!

26-Oct-08

Added Rapid fire to Interrogation. Added Blevins' family roles to Characters in a story and Preferences. Added Performing rituals and Substitution to Coping Mechanisms. Added Why fight? to Articles on warfare. Started Coaching in Disciplines with What is coaching? and The skills of coaching. Added What Customers Hate About You, Change or Be Changed and When the Hard Way is the Easy Way to Guest articles. Added Blagging and The public grovel to Blog!

19-Oct-08

Added Strategy and Tactics and Symmetry in war to Articles on warfare. Added Friends and family and Silence to Interrogation. Added Gold stars, Settling work and Silence to Classroom management. Added Creating Long Term Sales Success Using Short Term Tactics, Checklist for Changing Me to Change Them and If The Grass Seems Greener Across The Street, Maybe They're Using Better Fertilizer to Guest articles. Added Sweet Dreams to Blog!

12-Oct-08

Added Articles on warfare to Warfare, starting with Four battle personalities and Maneuver and Encounter. Added Direct question to Interrogation. Added Experimental power and Experimental effect to Statistical principles. Added Data design and One-tail and two-tail tests to Design of social research. Added Are You a Bridge Builder?, What Is Your Gibberish Component? and "I Do!" Design An Offer That Commences The Sales Marriage  to Guest articles. Added Contributions -- one person at a time to Blog!

05-Oct-08

Added Dietary control to Conversion techniques. Added Connect with their parents, Consequences and Divide and conquer to Classroom management. Added Frequency distributions to Statistical principles. Added Phi Correlation to Analysis in Social Research. Added Selling In The Crisis Economy, Will the Real Objection Please Stand Up?, The Folly of First Impressions and Carl Jung and Gateways Themes to Guest articles. Added Voices of failure to Blog!

28-Sep-08

Added Losing it, Know the system and Control classroom entry to Classroom management.  Added Reversal to Resisting persuasion. Added Multiple regression and Mann-Whitney test to Analysis in Social Research. Added The Power of Choice!, Conversion! Drive Attendance to Your Seminar and Win the Battle, Lose the War to Guest articles. Added Short-term thinking, long-term thinking and economic impact to Blog!

21-Sep-08

Added Sustaining commitment to Sales articles. Added Day one discipline, The foundation of discipline and Respect to Classroom management. Added Factor Analysis, Biserial Correlation Coefficient, and Cramer's V to Analysis in Social Research. Added Choosing a sampling method to Sampling. Added The Secret Peril That Causes Sales to be Lost and The Power of Your Creative Voice: An Essay on Tempering the Inner Critic to Guest articles. Added Religion and war to Blog!

14-Sep-08

Started a new Discipline topic of Teaching, beginning with Classroom management, with pages on The foundation of discipline, Why are they so naughty? and The confident teacher. Added Z-score to Statistical principles.  Added Ethnographic Research to Social Research. Added 4 Keys to a Successful Sales Strategy, Who Else Wants Success By Choosing What They Want In Life, Essay on Creativity: Discipline or Willingness? and When Good People Become Bad Bosses to Guest articles. Added What makes a good tune to Blog!

07-Sep-08

Added Visualizing and Wondering to Techniques of hypnotism. Added Chi-square test, Chi Square table, Choosing a correlation test, Choosing parametric test, Choosing a non-parametric test, Choosing a test, Parametric vs. non-parametric tests, Principles in analysis, Shapiro-Wilk test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to Analysis in Social Research. Added Just Checking In Makes Your Prospects Check Out!, Handling the Cold Potato, Shepherds of the Night: How dreams help artists develop creativity, and Now You Can Really Motivate Your Staff To Go The Extra Mile to Guest articles. Added Words, pictures and stories to Blog!

31-Aug-08

Added Pausing, Progressive relaxation and Relax-repeat to Techniques of hypnotism. Added ABAB design to Design of social research.  Added Covariance to Statistical principles. Added Secrets to Getting the Sales Job You Want!, Keep the Sale and Who Else Wants To Know How To Become Successful Through Networking to Guest articles. Added Interpreting dreams and The necessity of celebrity to Blog!

25-Aug-08

Added Collaboration to Principles of hypnosis. Added Bloom's Taxonomy to Learning Theory. Added Drawing conclusions to Social Research with Inferring cause and Two error types. Added The Management Gurus by Chris Lauer and Soundview to Book reviews. Added Six Powerful Prospecting Tips, Getting a “GRIP” on your teams – how to get better results from the same people, Think Like a Coward and Here Are Ways Which Are Making Average Managers Into Outstanding Ones to Guest articles. Added Sensory deprivation on the BBC and Ten thousand emails to Blog!

17-Aug-08

On holiday again. Here's the notes and photos.

10-Aug-08

Added A Selling Attitude to Sales articles. Added Wondering, Hand-clasp and Levitation to Techniques of hypnotism. Added Ethnographic principles, Content analysis and Ethnographic coding to Analysis in Social Research. Added Recruit Your Way to the Top!, Motivate Your Sales Team to Crush the Tomato, How to ask beautiful questions and The New Global Marketplace Requires the Versatility of a Swiss Army Knife to Guest articles. Added Cruise dues to Blog!

03-Aug-08

On holiday. Here's the blog and photos.

27-Jul-08

Added Affirmation, Vagueness and Ambiguity to Techniques of hypnotism. Added Dialogic listening to Listening. Added Variance homogeneity test and Levene's test to Analysis in Social Research. Added Driving Higher Levels of Performance on the Corporate Racetrack: Finish First, What Is Leadership? and What Everybody Should Know About Setting Goals to Guest articles. Added Don't fire your bad customers! and Religions and abuse to Blog!

20-Jul-08

Added Techniques of hypnotism to Hypnotism, starting with Noticing, Linking and Confirmation. Added Z-test, ANOVA, F-ratio and Sphericity to Analysis in Social Research.  Added Mushroom Management to Leadership articles and Leadership styles. Added Your Sales Need a Little R & R and What Everybody Should Know To Be An Effective Public Speaker: 4 Simple Techniques to Guest articles. Added The price of wine to Blog!

13-Jul-08

Added Confidence to Principles of hypnosis. Added Seagull Management to Leadership articles and Leadership styles. Added Requirements and Risk Register to The 4D Change Project Framework. Added t-test, Independent t-test and Matched-pair t-test to Analysis in Social Research. Added Here Is A Quick Way To Improve Your Performance Review and Compensate to Motivate to Guest articles. Added Influencing politicians and Speed dating to Blog!

06-Jul-08

Added Eight need domains to Needs. Added Mandate and Project Plan to The 4D Change Project Framework. Added Micromanagement to Leadership articles. Started Analysis in Social Research in Social Research, with Correlation, Pearson correlation, Spearman correlation and Kendall correlation. Added Think Before You Speak, Who Else Wants Career Success? Follow This Proven Method, Heroes and Why Sensitivity Training Is Insensitive and Patronizing to Guest articles. Added (Not) good enough thinking and Micromanagement to Blog!

29-Jun-08

Added The needs of children to Needs. Added Handover Close to Closing techniques. Started Techniques of hypnotism with Noticing, Linking and Confirmation. Added Degrees of freedom, Standard error and Sum of the Squares, SS to Statistical principles in Social Research. Added What New Managers Should Know About Managing Their Time, Spread the light and Interview Bias: Overcoming the Silent Forces Working Against You to Guest articles. Added Blind motivation to Blog!

22-Jun-08

Added Discovery Report and Issue Log to The 4D Change Project Framework. Added Feedback and Utilization to Principles of hypnosis. Added Statistical principles to Social Research, including Central limit theorem, Correlation and Covariance. Added Here Is A Quick Way To Propel Your Career, Saving Gas and Selling More: 5 Secrets of Top 20% Producers, Because you're worth it and The Imbalance of Life/Work Balance to Guest articles.  Added Sharpe's Way and The activist's trap to Blog!

15-Jun-08

Added The human limit to HR Articles. Started section on Hypnotism with Principles of hypnosis including Forced cognition, Sensory thought and Physical thought. Added Judgment sampling, Ethnographic data collection and Sampling terminology to Sampling in Social Research. Added How To Turn Around Negative Attitudes, Change - let go of bananas! and Instant Success to Guest articles. Added Coaching euphemism and Getting your website noticed  to Blog!

08-Jun-08

Added Hold by the nose and kick up the backside to Tactics in war. Added HR as mirror to HR Articles. Added The GROW model to Performance Management. Added Non-proportionate quota sampling, Snowball sampling and Diversity sampling to Sampling in Social Research. Added Take Out the Trash, Laughter Therapy – Do it yourself! and The Sales Person's First Day to Guest articles. Added Seeing photographs to Blog!

02-Jun-08

Added Expert sampling, Quota sampling and Proportionate quota sampling to Sampling in Social Research. Added Read between the lines to Campbell's Commandments for Reading Myth. Added Are you wasting your money on Training?, Be more successful: Create "ME INC.", How to Sell to Anyone, Conscious-Subconscious Model: A Winning Approach to Designing Successful High Technology Marketing Strategy, Snapshots and Guard Your Hive to Guest articles.

25-May-08

On holiday. Here's the blog and photos.

18-May-08

Added the Rationalization trap to Change techniques and Refreezing techniques. Added Four audiences to General persuasion techniques. Added Convenience sampling, Purposive sampling and Modal instance sampling to Sampling in Social Research. Added Know your community and Expand your horizons to Campbell's Commandments for Reading Myth. Added Seven Speaking Myths: Beat These and Become a Great Speaker, Navigating Through Life and Playing with The Big Kids to Guest articles. Added Nelson's Way and Go Large to Blog!

11-May-08

Added Remembering languages and Remembering spelling to Memory methods. Added Facial emotional indicators to Emotions. Started Sampling in Social Research, with Sampling terminology, Simple random sampling and Stratified sampling. Added The Sales Marriage - How To Hire The Right Sales People, How to Use Layering Questions, Just a Little Bit More and The Power of Your Words to Guest articles. Added Possibly persuasive emails and How to succeed as an academic to Blog!

04-May-08

Added Find myth everywhere to Campbell's Commandments for Reading Myth. Added Measuring attitude, Rank Ordering scale and Visual-Analog Rating scale to Measurement in Social Research. Added Conversation, Reasons Why Change Fails, Positive Focus, 12 Lessons to Good First Impressions, Cost-Unconscious: Denying the True Cost of Network Downtime, How To Qualify Warm Leads and Bringing Choice To Your Anxiety Scenarios to Guest articles. Added Preying on sympathy and Be a shade braver to Blog!

27-Apr-08

Added Investigate images and stories and Seek patterns and connections to Campbell's Commandments for Reading Myth. Added Bogardus Social Distance Scale, Thurstone scale and Semantic differential to Measurement in Social Research. Added How to Avoid the Brush Off, Can Becoming a “Thoughtleader” Give You an Edge as a CEO?, Notes! To take or not to take? and The Value of A Sounding Board to Guest articles. Added Marathon madness and Planes, teens and matriarchal society to Blog!

20-Apr-08

Added Read as a God and Understand magnetic effects to Campbell's Commandments for Reading Myth. Added Likert scale and Guttman scale to Measurement in Social Research. Added Remembering faces and Remembering cards to Memory methods. Added You Get The Results You Reward, Sales Candidate Attributes: Desired or Required, 5 Secrets to Exercising Authority and Celebrate to Guest articles. Added Service hazards to Blog!

13-Apr-08

Started Campbell's Commandments for Reading Myth in Telling stories with Read with eyes of wonder and Read in the present tense. Added Question types and Asking questions to Measurement in Social Research. Added The Celebrity Method and Mnemonics to Memory methods. Added The Second Dimension of Screening Sales Talent, The 5 Secrets of Winning Emails, Reaching the Summit: 8 Keys to Running a Successful Business and Shine to Guest articles. Added Words of wisdom and Growing pains to Blog!

06-Apr-08

Added Organizational therapy to HR Articles. Added Spitzer's eight desires to Needs. Added Rehearsal and The Story Method to Memory methods. Started Measurement in Social Research with Variables in research, Types of data and Measurement error. Added Action!, The Sales Person's First Day and How To Stop Work From Feeling Like Work to Guest articles. Added Fancy footwork to Blog!

30-Mar-08

Added Escape Theory to Academic Theories. Added Parallel to Explanation devices in Story devices. Added The Peg Method and The Consonant Peg Method to Memory methods. Added Anthropological research and Ethnographic principles to Design of social research. Added The Solution to the Chief Marketing Officer’s Dilemma – Accurate Emotional Engagement Metrics, Meditation and Presenting to a group to Guest articles.  Added Management tampering to Blog!

23-Mar-08

Added Involvement principle to Persuasion principles. Added Kellerman's follower typology to Followership. Added Separate Pre-Post Samples design and Time studies to Design of social research. Added The Journey Method and The House Method to Memory methods. Added Angels of Love and Demons of Fear, Attention Is The Best Rapport-Builder and Keep Your Past from Invading Your Present and Destroying Your Future to Guest articles.  Added Tourist confusion and Do not read this blog to Blog!

16-Mar-08

Added Leadership actions to Leadership. Added Boyatzis' management competencies to Leadership actions. Added Temperament, Mood and Emotion to Emotions. Added Ann Coulter on religion to Analysis. Added Regression Point Displacement design, Solomon Four-Group design and Switching Replications design to Design of social research. Added The Thermometer Close, Priming the Sales Applicant Pump and Stuck in a Rut? Six Ways to Jumpstart Your Life Right Now to Guest articles. Added A weekend's entertainment and Just giving, just getting to Blog!

09-Mar-08

Started Memory methods in Techniques with Active experiencing, Associating and The linking method. Added Non-equivalent Dependent Variables design, Proxy Pre-test design and Regression-Discontinuity design to Design of social research. Added Parker's story types to Story plots. Make Your Business Writing Great. Get Rid of Clich?, Meeting Our “Disowned Selves” In The Workplace and A Risky Proposition: How to Take Smart Risks to Find Success to Guest articles. Added Communities and the magic 150 and Magical misdirection  to Blog!

02-Mar-08

Added Whodunnit to Classic story types. Added Cheek body language to Parts-of-the-body language. Added Chaleff's follower typology to Followership. Added Double Pretest design and Factorial design to Design of social research. Added Secrets Buried In a Sales Person's Resume, Seven Sizzling Solutions to Predictable Hourly Stressors and The marketing revolution - Connecting Behavior to Subconscious mind to Guest articles. Added Acting memory to Blog!

24-Feb-08

On holiday most of this week so fewer new pages. Added Stereotyping to Propaganda. Added War and Western to Classic story types. Added Delivery and Gate 4 Checklist to The 4D Change Project Framework.  Added Succeeding at Telesales and Motivating the Passive Sales Candidate to Guest articles. Added Florence blog and photos to Syque site.

17-Feb-08

Added Thriller and Tragedy to Classic story types. Added Development phase and Gate 3 Checklist to The 4D Change Project Framework. Added Experimental principles and Control-group design to Design of social research. Added Everyone Can Be Your Cheerleaders: Put Your "Champions" to Work for You in Public Relations and Seven Calculated Choices to Make Your Career Leap Like a Geyser to Guest articles. Added Review: The Sales Operator to Book reviews. Added What not to wear and Buying beds to Blog!

10-Feb-08

Added Vagueness to Modifying meaning. Added Definition and Gate 2 Checklist to The 4D Change Project Framework. Added Swashbuckler and Teen drama to Classic story types. Added Types of reliability and Types of validity to Design of social research. Added A New Perspective On Procrastination and How to Win at Any Media Interview to Guest articles. Added Spring and renewal and Medical priorities to Blog!

03-Feb-08

Added  Dump and Chase (DAC) to Sequential requests. Added Discovery and Gate 1 Checklist  to The 4D Change Project Framework. Added Slapstick and Survival  to Classic story types. Added Hypothesis to Initiating social research. Added Three -izings of research and Control vs. authenticity to Design of social research. Added Try Before Buy, Murphy’s Law vs. Yaffe’s Law: A New Look at an Old Problem and Radio is the Most Intimate Medium. Use It to Boost your PR to Guest articles. Added MBWA and Holiday taxi ads to Blog!

27-Jan-08

Added Control-Identity types to Preferences. Added Initiation and Gate 0 Checklist to The 4D Change Project Framework. Added Romance and Science fiction to Classic story types. Added Types of experiment, Design notation and Evaluative research to Design of social research. Added The Sales Person’s Kryptonite, Laugh Your Way to Persuasive Communication and How Anyone Can Build a One-Stop Press and Public Relations Shop on the Web to Guest articles. Added What To Do When You Become The Boss to Book reviews. Added Eccentrically light reading and Coercion, cause and effect to Blog!

20-Jan-08

Added Interpersonal Expectancy Effect to Academic Theories. Added Greeting body language to Using Body Language. Started The 4D Change Project Framework in Change Management, with 4D Framework Overview, Project governance and Project Gates. Added Psychological thriller and Rescue to Classic story types. Started Design of social research in Social Research, with Research frameworks and A general research framework. Added Will You Pass the Flinch Test? and Eight Painless Steps to Making Your Business Writing Sparkle to Guest articles. Added Seeds of Destruction to Book reviews. Added Famously fair and Looking for God, extremely to Blog!

13-Jan-08

Added Kelley's follower typology to Followership. Added Prudentius' seven virtues to Values. Added Reframing to General persuasion techniques. Added Period drama and Pioneer to Classic story types. Added Initiating social research to Social Research with The research question, Research Proposal and Three research questions. Added Great PR Tactics for Winning Visibility at Trade Shows and When the Sale Doesn’t Happen to Guest articles. Added Retail experiences 1 and Retail experiences 2 to Blog!

6-Jan-08

Added Nose body language to Parts-of-the-body language. Added Frankl's Three Sources of Meaning to Meaning. Added Zaleznik's follower typology to Followership. Added Horror, Kitchen-sink drama and Mystery to Classic story types. Added Why Can’t I Hire The Right Sales People? and Public Relations Magic: The 4-Part Message Document That Will Make Your Customers Sit Up and Listen! to Guest articles. Added 2008 and all that brainwashing and Sale talk to Blog!

30-Dec-07

On hols.

23-Dec-07

Added Values in Action (VIA) to Values. Added Types of Operant Conditioning to Conditioning. Added Escape, Espionage and Fantasy to to Classic story types. Added Knee body language and Foot body language to Parts-of-the-body language. Added The Most Underutilized Strategic Advantage and Seven Great PR Tips for Winning Press Coverage to Guest articles. Added Intelligence and education to Blog!

16-Dec-07

Added Constructionism and Constructivism to Philosophies of Social Research. Added Abduction to Types of reasoning. Added Leg body language and Thigh body language to Parts-of-the-body language. Added Docu-drama and Drama to Classic story types. Added What’s The Plan?, Effective Leadership - Making your Business Relationships work and Stop Writing Press Releases. Start Writing News Releases to Guest articles. Added Soar, Despite Your Dodo Sales Manager to Sales Books. Added The power of love, the punishment of hate and Hat trick in Paris to Blog!

09-Dec-07

Added Ontology and Epistemology to Philosophies of Social Research. Added Crime and Disaster to Classic story types. Added Belly body language, Bottom body language and Hips body language to Parts-of-the-body language. Added 5 Keys to Hiring the Right Sales Manager, Employee Communication: 3 Ways To Create Transformation In Organizations and The Sin of Arrogant Advertising to Guest articles.  Added Rim lighting and godliness to Blog!

02-Dec-07

Added Groups to Explanations, including Mass movement stages, Work Group and The Basic Assumption Group. Added Comedy and Courtroom drama to Classic story types. Added Chest body language and Back body language to Parts-of-the-body language. Added Creating Problems Creates an Innovative Culture, Should English Be Declared the World’s Official Common Language?, What Leaders need to know about failure: when Jack Welch blew up the plant, Employee Communication: 5 Ways Leaders Can Communicate Change and Can't Sell Today to Guest articles. Added Signage to Blog!

25-Nov-07

Added Chick Flick and Classroom drama to Classic story types. Added Obligation to Persuasion principles. Added Finger body language, Neck body language and Shoulder body language to Parts-of-the-body language. Added 12 Keys to Tuning Up Your Sales Force, Techniques of Persuasive Communication: Old Wisdom in a New Package and Love and leadership to Guest articles. Added Headline overkill to Blog!

18-Nov-07

Added Selective response to Resisting persuasion. Added Arm body language, Elbow body language and Hand body language to Parts-of-the-body language. Added Kuhn's paradigm to Articles on Social Research. Added Body swap, Caper and Chase to Classic story types. Added Help Your Employees “Make” Time and 5 Keys to Ensuring A Spectacular Sales Training Engagement to Guest articles. Added Influencing gods and Open all hours to Blog!

11-Nov-07

Added Post-hoc Management to Leadership articles. Added Classic story conflicts to Plots. Also started Classic story types beginning with Action, Adventure and Biographic drama. Added Head body language, Face body language and Hair body language to Parts-of-the-body language. Added Finding the Right Home for Your Sales Skills to Guest articles. Added My ideal manager and Small words, different effect to Blog!

04-Nov-07

Added Co-creating stories to Telling stories. Added The selection spiral to Selection in Human Resources. Added Embrace, extend, extinguish to Resisting persuasion. Added Eyes body language, Eyebrow body language and Forehead body language to Parts-of-the-body language. Added Influence to Book reviews. Added Finding The Right Sales Talent For Your Company and Ten Career Skills to Keep You Employable in the 21st Century to Guest articles. Added Lonely hearts and house ads and A wow presentation to Blog!

28-Oct-07

Added Character types and The Fatal Flaw to Characters in a story. Added Chin body language and Mouth body language to Parts-of-the-body language. Added Ignorance to Resisting persuasion. Added What Every Sales Person Could Learn From the Yankees to Guest articles. Added Shift happens and minds get changed to Blog! Fewer additions this week as I on a short break in Suffolk. Here's blog and photos.

21-Oct-07

Started Parts-of-the-body language in Using Body Language with Lips body language, Teeth body language and Tongue body language. Added Save-the-world close to Closing techniques. Added Short name to Their name. Added Ethics in research to Articles on Social Research. Added Migrating from Vendor to Partner to Guest articles. Added Going back for less and Word power: England expects and Nelson dies to Blog!

14-Oct-07

Added Ecological fallacy and Exception fallacy to Deductive Fallacies and Full alphabetic list of Fallacies. Added Teaching tales to Storytelling articles. Added 2D and 3D characters and STEAL characterization to Characters in a story. Added Dominant body language to Using Body Language. Added Unclear language to Modifying meaning. Added Successful Selling and the Theory of Relativity to Guest articles. Added Marmite: like it or loathe it and Not for sale to Blog!

07-Oct-07

Added Forced Compliance to Academic Theories.  Added False replay to Interrogation.  Added Benefits of reflecting to Reflecting in Conversation techniques. Added Pearson's heroic archetypes to Characters in a story.  Added Four Es of storytelling to Telling stories. Added Unique Selling Proposition (USP) to Sales articles. Added Set Induction to Learning Theory. Added Employee Communication: 5 Ways To Measure The Impact On Business Outcomes and The Secret to Overcoming the Price Objection to Guest articles. Added The Manager's Kitbag to Book reviews. Added Who needs a penis? to Blog!

30-Sep-07

Added Sexual characters and Neutral characters to Characters in a story. Added Tension-resolution pairs to Storytelling articles. Added Narrative thinking and The Story Carousel to Telling stories. Added All types of listening to Listening. Added Linking to Sustaining the conversation in Conversation techniques. Added Employee Communication: 5 Tips To Engage Employees and Creating A SME Web Presence That Delivers to Guest articles. Added Selfish vs. social and Super-duper nanny to Blog!

23-Sep-07

Added Source Credibility to Academic Theories. Added Tragic characters, Magical characters and Love characters to Characters in a story. Added Pre-empting to Resisting persuasion.  Added Story reverse to Interrogation. Added Listener preferences to Listening. Added Six Quick Tips to Build Charisma and Retention Leadership to Guest articles. Added Power, rights and slippery slopes and Persuasion and truth to Blog!

16-Sep-07

Added False Recognition to Academic Theories. Added Heroic characters, Support characters and Villainous characters to Characters in a story. Added Say something wrong to Opening the conversation. Added Minor points close to Closing techniques. Added Attentive body language to Using Body Language.  Added You are what you wear and Obsessive Primping Syndrome (OPS) to Blog!

09-Sep-07

Added Concealing persuasion to General persuasion techniques. Added Object focus to Persuasive language. Added Split and Twist ending to Story devices, plus grouping into device types: Change devices, Cheat devices, Explanation devices, Extension devices, Tension-creating devices and Time devices. Added Storytelling channels and Teaching tales to Storytelling in organizations. Added Start Writing Now and Demystifying Co-Counseling to Guest articles. Added What does it all mean? to Blog!

02-Sep-07

Added What's special about organizational storytelling? and The purpose of organizational storytelling to Storytelling in organizations. Added Telling stories to Storytelling including Using props and Developing stories. Added Gender to Explanations, including Genderlect and Women's language. Added Leaders take real control and Communication in Corporate Affairs to Guest articles. Added The necessity of celebrity and Why do we worship? to Blog!

26-Aug-07

Added Side Bet Theory to Academic Theories. Added What are your career aspirations?, Do you work much outside normal hours? and Do you have any questions? Added Visionary stories and War stories to Storytelling in organizations. Added Self-Esteem and How to Improve Your Writing by Standing on Your Head to Guest articles. Added Antigrammatical selling and Licence fees and criminals to Blog!

19-Aug-07

Added Fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to Resisting persuasion. Added Red Herring, Reversal and Science and magic to Story devices. Added Which job did you like least?. What salary are you seeking? and How long would it take to get up to speed in this job? to Interview questions. Added Performance Appraisal, Fast-tracking Foreign Languages and Tips for dealing with gatekeepers to Guest articles. Added The Method of Selling to Book reviews. Added Transformational holidays and Wisdom and war to Blog!

12-Aug-07

Added Four American Fears to Culture. Added Proairetic Code, Quibble and Realization to Story devices. Added Are you prepared to travel?, What did you like/dislike about that job? and Why do you want to leave your current job? to Interview questions. Add Remember More In Less Time to Guest articles. Added Holiday reprise to Blog!

05-Aug-07

Still on holiday!

29-Jul-07

On holiday in Ireland. Blog and photos here.

22-Jul-07

Added Balance Theory to Academic Theories. Added Harassment to Tactics in war. Added Narrator, Plot Coupon and Point of view to Story devices. Added Tell me about the best manager you had, Why are you looking for another job? and What particularly attracted you to this job? to Interview questions. Added Life Skills Education and Coaching That Counts to Guest articles. Added Pressing reset and Word-Of-Mouth Marketing to Blog!

15-Jul-07

Added Hidden commands to Persuasive language. Added Accepting criticism, Balanced conversation and Enthusiasm for the subject to Sustaining the conversation. Added How do you get on with others at work? and What do you think about your manager? to Interview questions. Added MacGuffin, Monologue and Narrative Hook to Story devices. Added Ten Deadly Sales Sins to Guest articles. Added Farewell, Joe, Supermarket success and Anger management to Blog!

08-Jul-07

Added Opponent-Process Theory to Academic Theories. Added What sorts of people do you not get on with?, Tell me about a time when you influenced someone else and What do you do when you disagree with others? to Interview questions. Added Overlapping speech and Technology and interruption to Interrupting. Added Foreshadowing, Hermeneutic Code and In medias res to Story devices. Added Procrastinate Procrastination to Guest articles. Added Invisible celebrities and Wikimania to Blog!

01-Jul-07

Added The sales presentation to Sales, including Scripted performance, The structured presentation, The problem-solving presentation, The need-satisfaction presentation and The 'Tellem' presentation. Added Stories of hope, Fearful stories and Stories of transformation to Storytelling in organizations. Added Would you say that you stand out as an individual?, How do you work in teams? and How do you handle conflict? to Interview questions. Added Objection Handling Techniques to Guest articles. Added The Wrong Trousers and difficult decisions to Blog!

24-Jun-07

Added Priming to Academic Theories. Added Three customer types, Verifying the person and The cold call sequence to Prospecting. Added Do you plan to have children?, What do you do to relax?, Do you take your work home? and That was stupid! to Interview questions. Added Flashforward, Flashing Arrow and Fold to Story devices. Added Present Powerfully to Guest articles. Added Strange dreams and Empty nest and ready to rock! to Blog!

17-Jun-07

Added Inattentional Blindness to Academic Theories. Added Selling the top of the line to Sequential requests. Added Dream sequence, Exposition and Flashback to Story devices. Added How do you handle stressful situations?, How do you handle criticism?, How do you respond to change? and Have you ever had to dismiss someone? to Interview questions. Added Masterful Time Management to Guest articles. Added Whittington days to Blog!

10-Jun-07

Added List of therapies to Psychoanalysis articles. Added Handshake Close to Closing techniques. Added Can you work under pressure?, What keeps you awake at night? and What annoys you? to Interview questions. Added Cliffhanger, Death trap, Deus ex machina and Discovery to Story devices. Added Interview Like A Champion and Wisdom to Guest articles. Added Victim thinking to Blog!

3-Jun-07

On holiday -- here's the Maldives holiday blog plus photographs.

27-May-07

Added Affect Perseverance to Academic Theories. Added Passion to Persuasion principles. Added Topical events and Topic list to Sustaining the conversation. Added What have you done that you are not proud of?, Have you ever lost your job? and Do you take your work home with you? to Interview questions. Started Story devices in Storytelling with Aside, Back story, Character shield and Chekhov's Gun. Added Your Business…Who Do You Be? to Guest articles. Added Bottle-opening, fizz-buzz and friends and Bad news, good news, weird news to Blog!

20-May-07

Added Pique Technique to General persuasion techniques. Added Linguistic Inter-group Bias to Academic Theories. Added Interest-Influence Grid to Stakeholders in change. Added Plans for the future, Progressive disclosure and Tell stories to Sustaining the conversation. Added What did you like least about that job?, What do you find difficult? and How do you approach risks? to Interview questions. Added You Too Can Work From Home and Understanding Needs Does Not Close a Sale to Guest articles. Added Absolutely talking and The mortgage mystery and global sustainability to Blog!

12-May-07

Added The Hot Hand Phenomenon and Gambler's Fallacy to Academic Theories. Added Trench war and Siege War to Strategies of war. Added What are your weaknesses?, What skills would you like to develop? and Tell me about when something you did didn't work to Interview questions. Added Stories of failure, Founder myths and Heroic stories to Storytelling in organizations. Added Why Sales Fail to Guest articles. Added Oh, Aero!, Patterns of abuse and Change, jobs, doctors and resilience to Blog!

06-May-07

Added Aristotle's seven causes to Motivation. Added Fear-then-relief (FTR) to Sequential requests. Started Storytelling in organizations in Storytelling with Cautionary tales, Genesis stories and Leadership stories. Added What did you learn in that job?, Why should I employ you? and What would you do if you got the job? to Interview questions. Added Guerilla war, Scorched earth and Terrorism to Strategies of war. Added Just Change Your Mind and Voicemail, Gatekeepers and Other Obstructions to Sales Success to Guest articles. Added Lucifer in prison and A hard path to Blog!

29-Apr-07

Added Bosworth's ten pains to Sales articles. Added Disrupt-then-reframe (DTR) to Sequential requests. Added Tell me of a time when things went really well, Would you call yourself ...? and What have you done that you are proud of? to Interview questions. Added Blitzkreig, Cold war and Crippling to Strategies of war. Started Storytelling articles in Storytelling with Barthes' Five Codes, Magical computers and Suspension of disbelief. Added Sales Recovery: How To Manage a Sale Going Wrong to Guest articles. Added Net losses, Poetic release and You could save on the tube to Blog!

22-Apr-07

Added Lake Wobegon Effect and Below-Average Effect to Academic Theories. Added Social Engineering to General persuasion techniques. Added What has made you successful, What interests you most about this job?, What is your greatest strength? and Tell me about when you were particularly challenged to Interview questions. Added Strategies of war to Warfare, starting with Alliances, War of Attrition and Battle war. Started Characters in Storytelling with Jung's Archetypes, Propp's Dramatis Personae and Vogler's archetypes.

Added Change: It Doesn't Have To Be So Difficult to Guest articles. Added The falsehood of self-image and Balancing conviction and openness to Blog!

15-Apr-07

Added Just-world phenomenon to Academic Theories. Added Please describe a typical day, How does your current job fit into the overall business and Tell me about your ideal job to Interview questions. Added Retreat, Starvation, Surprise attack and The Wedge to Tactics in war. Added George Carman, QC to Analysis. Added Why Sellers Don't Close, Polishing Your Presentation Skills, Antidotes To Unfair Persuasion and Being-in-the-moment to Guest articles. Added Social Psychology (Smith and Mackie) to Book reviews. Added Traffic lights, badges and romance and Seven Rules of Religion to Blog!

08-Apr-07

Added Illusion of asymmetric insight to Academic Theories. Added Isolation, Lure and Pincer Movement to Tactics in war. Started Interview questions in Job Finding with Tell me about yourself, Tell me about your last job and Tell me about your career so far. Added Going Beyond Diversity Training to Guest articles. Added Buying Facilitation to Book reviews. Added The power of music and Elbow negotiations to Blog!

01-Apr-07

Added Personal Validation Fallacy to Academic Theories. Added What is a game? to Games. Added Encirclement, Feint and Flanking to Tactics in war. Added A classic story structure and Vogler's story structure to Plots. Added When not to let them interrupt and How to stop people interrupting to Interrupting. Added All change! to Blog!

25-Mar-07

Added Polarization to Academic Theories. Added Napoleon Boneparte, Ulysses S. Grant and Georgy Zhukov to Military Commanders. Started Tactics in war with Ambush, Beheading and Decoy. Added Three stage story and Reich's American narratives to Plots.  Added Terminating people and Child is mother to the man to Blog!

18-Mar-07

Added Clustering Illusion to Academic Theories. Added Refusal of the Return, Magic Flight, Rescue From Without, Crossing of the Return Threshold, Master of the Two Worlds and Freedom to Live to Campbell's 'Hero's Journey' Monomyth. Added Sacrifice, Seamlessness and Speed to Principles of war. Started Military commanders in Warfare, with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Horatio Nelson. Added A Hard Knight's Day and The Path is a Choice to Thinking Stories. Added Sigh and Bidding wars to Blog!

11-Mar-07

Added Ambiguity effect to Academic Theories. Added Common games to Games. Added Road of Trials, The Meeting with the Goddess, Woman as Temptress, Atonement with the Father, Apotheosis and The Ultimate Boon to Campbell's 'Hero's Journey' Monomyth. Added Generosity, Intelligence, Overwhelm and Provocation to Principles of war. Added Reality blindness and One hit wonder to Blog!

04-Mar-07

Added Planning fallacy to Academic Theories. Added Disabling, Discipline, Division and Fear to Principles of war. Added Campbell's 'Hero's Journey' Monomyth to Storytelling and Plots, starting with The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, Acceptance of the Call, Supernatural Aid, Crossing of the First Threshold and Entering the Belly of the Whale. Added Teaching clothes and Wrinkle-free adverts to Blog!

25-Feb-07

Started Warfare in Disciplines with Principles of war including Confusion in war, Demoralization in war and Distraction in war. Added Neglect of probability bias to Academic Theories. Added Social psychological conditioning to Conversion articles. Added Erroneous judgment, Remorse, Recovery of a lost one and Loss of loved ones to 36 Dramatic Situations. Added Tobias' 20 plots to Plots. Added Advice addiction and Morals as social division to Blog!

18-Feb-07

Added Nicomachean Ethics to Values. Added Information Bias to Academic Theories. Added Three rules of appearance to Sales articles. Added Obstacles to love, An enemy loved, Ambition, Conflict with a god and Mistaken jealousy to 36 Dramatic Situations. Added Shake, Rattle and Squeak to Blog!

11-Feb-07

Added Durability bias, Focalism and Impact bias to Academic Theories. Added Rivalry of superior and inferior, Adultery, Crimes of love and Discovery of the dishonor of a loved one to 36 Dramatic Situations. Added Therapeutic use of metaphor to Metaphor. Added System selling to Sales articles. Added The Power & Paradox of Disruptive Leadership to Guest articles. Added Teenage trouble and Chasing the causal chain to Blog!

04-Feb-07

Added Hyperbolic discounting to Academic Theories. Added Surprise to Emotions. Added Self-sacrificing for an ideal, Self-sacrifice for kindred, All sacrificed for a passion and Necessity of sacrificing loved ones to 36 Dramatic Situations. Added Metaphor and politeness to Metaphor. Added Life skills for adults - Shaping their personality to Guest articles. Added Voices of transformation and Go for No! to Book reviews. Added Toilet innovation and MAAP Publishing and Training to Blog!

28-Jan-07

Added Focusing Effect to Academic Theories. Added Ten Stages to Conversion to Conversion articles. Added Buying signals to Sales articles. Added Madness, Fatal imprudence, Involuntary crimes of love and Slaying of a kinsman unrecognized to 36 Dramatic Situations. Added The 'empty chair' technique to Guest articles. Added The language of love, learning and cold calling and A learning environment to Blog!

21-Jan-07

Added Balancing conviction and openness to Leadership articles. Added Disconfirmation bias to Academic Theories. Added LOCATE to Sales articles and Sales methods. Added Enmity of kinsmen, Rivalry of kinsmen and Murderous adultery to 36 Dramatic Situations. Added Career counselling, Effective Management and Stress and Managers to Guest articles.  Added Stopping shoplifting -- nicely and Standing out and picking up to Blog!

14-Jan-07

Added Bias blind spot to Academic Theories. Added Transmarginal Inhibition to Conditioning. Added Daring enterprise, Abduction, Enigma and Obtaining  to 36 Dramatic Situations. Added Prospecting is..., The successful prospector and Fish where the fish are to Prospecting. Added Susan's mother says and Honesty and eyes to Blog!

07-Jan-07

Added Workplace design to Disciplines, with Work patterns, Working spaces, Overall design principles, Physical design principles, Physical layout elements, Psychological principles, Office design, Workstation design, Workplaces for teams and Designing experiences. Added Choice-supportive bias to Academic Theories. Added Disaster, Falling prey to cruelty or misfortune and Revolt to 36 Dramatic Situations. Added Orphans, Prospecting clubs, Web trawling and Your website to Prospecting. Added New year, same old resolutions? and The leader-follower dance to Blog!

31-Dec-06

Added Acquiescence effect to Academic Theories. Added Distortion to Modifying meaning. Added Direct mail, Expert pull and Getting referrals to Prospecting. Started Georges Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations in Story Plots, adding Supplication, Deliverance, Vengeance of a crime, Vengeance taken for kindred upon kindred and Pursuit. Added A Christmas blog to Blog!

24-Dec-06

Added Prospecting to Sales, including Clubs and societies, Cold Calling and Conferences and Exhibitions. Added Pronoun language to Persuasive language. Added the Three stage story and The Five-stage Story Structure to Plots, including Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling action and Resolution. Added Group counseling to Guest articles.  Added Six guys and a lot of champagne and Good day, bad day to Blog!

17-Dec-06

Added 29. Transfiguration: Hero is given a new appearance, 30. Punishment: Villain is punished and 31. Wedding: Hero marries and ascends the throne to Propp's 31 Narratemes.  Added Qualifying to Sales, including Qualifying is..., Qualifying in, Qualifying out, Qualification criteria and Five qualifications. Added new section for Guest articles, including first ones on Business Continuity Planning and Learn in your own style. Added Creating ethical organizations and An unhappy customer to Blog!

10-Dec-06

Added The sales funnel and Sales funnel metrics to Sales articles. Added The OK-not OK Matrix to Behaviors. Added 25. Task: Difficult task proposed to the hero, 26. Solution: Task is resolved, 27. Recognition: Hero is recognised and 28. Exposure: False hero is exposed to Propp's 31 Narratemes. Added When to interrupt, When not to interrupt and When to let others interrupt to Interrupting. Added Londoners, Pigeons and Adverts to Blog!

03-Dec-06

Added Kahler's drivers to Motivation, including Be Perfect, Be Strong, Try Hard, Please Others and Hurry Up. Added 20. Return: Hero sets out for home, 21. Pursuit: Hero is chased, 22. Rescue: pursuit ends and 23. Arrival: Hero arrives unrecognized to Propp's 31 Narratemes. Added Creating a Million dollar a Year Sales Income to Book reviews. Added Risky shift, management and outsourcing and Hugging hoodies, political footballs and practical parenting to Blog!

25-Nov-06

Added A-player problems and Managing A-players to Performance Management. Added 16. Struggle: Hero and villain do battle, 17. Branding: Hero is branded, 18. Victory: Villain is defeated and 19. Resolution: Initial misfortune or lack is resolved to Propp's 31 Narratemes. Added Permission Interrupt, Touch Interrupt, 'Yes, and' Interrupt and 'Yes, but' Interrupt to Interrupting. Added PEPI'd and pooped! to ChangingMinds Blog!

19-Nov-06

Added 12. Testing: Hero is challenged to prove heroic qualities, 13. Reaction: Hero responds to test, 14. Acquisition: Hero gains magical item and 15. Guidance: Hero reaches destination to Propp's 31 Narratemes. Added Motormouth Interrupt, Question Interrupt and Power Interrupt to Interrupting. Started Sustaining the conversation in Conversation techniques with Ask their opinion, Concern for the person and Interest in the person. Added Talking to customers, The cost of persuasion and Birthday girl  to Blog!

12-Nov-06

Added Comparing behaviors to Assertiveness. Added 8. Villainy and lack: The need is identified, 9. Mediation: Hero discovers the lack, 10. Counteraction: Hero chooses positive action and 11. Departure: Hero leave on mission to Propp's 31 Narratemes. Added Encouragement Interrupt, External Interrupt, Identity Interrupt and Loudmouth Interrupt to Interrupting. Added Review: The Origin of Emotions to Book reviews. Added Doorstep religion, Social violence and Clever daughter, proud Dad to Blog!

05-Nov-06

Added 4. Reconnaissance: Villain seeks something, 5. Delivery: The villain gains information, 6. Trickery: Villain attempts to deceive victim and 7. Complicity: Unwitting helping of the enemy to Propp's 31 Narratemes. Added Continuation Interrupt, Disagreement Interrupt, Disinterest Interrupt and Distraction Interrupt to Interrupting. Added Halloween and hazard to Blog!

29-Oct-06

Added Interrupting to Conversation techniques, starting with Agreement Interrupt, Body Language Interrupt and Clarification Interrupt. Added Propp's 31 Narratemes to Plots and Storytelling, starting with 0. Initial situation, 1. Absentation, 2. Interdiction, 3. Violation of interdiction. Added Breaking up and Culture change -- or not to Blog!

22-Oct-06

Added Sensory language to Persuasive language. Added Creativity and metaphor, Everyday use of metaphor and Poetry and metaphor to Metaphor. Added The Education Plot, The Revelation Plot, The Affective Plot and The Disillusionment Plot to Friedman's story plots. Added Music and age and Brand suicide to Blog!

15-Oct-06

Added Von Restorff Effect to Memory. Added Prepositions and metaphor and Verb metaphors to Speech parts and metaphor. Added The Maturing Plot, The Reform Plot, The Testing Plot and The Degeneration Plot to Friedman's story plots. Added Select committees and Never accept no to Blog!

08-Oct-06

Added Zeigarnik effect to Memory. Added Completion principle to Persuasion principles. Added Speech parts and metaphor to Metaphor, including Adjective metaphors, Adverb metaphors and Noun metaphors. Added The Punitive Plot, The Sentimental Plot and The Admiration Plot to Friedman's story plots. Added Cryptic conversation and Pimps and prostitutes to Blog!

01-Oct-06

Added Root metaphor, Simple metaphor, Submerged metaphor and Synechdochic metaphor to Types of metaphor. Started Storytelling in Disciplines with Friedman's story plots of The Action Plot, The Pathetic Plot and the The Tragic Plot. Added Carousels, crime and cost and Drinking the brand to Blog!

24-Sep-06

Added Extended metaphor, Implicit metaphor, Mixed metaphor and Pataphor to Types of metaphor. Added 'Save me' game to Games. Added Jung's Archetypes to Identity. Added Prima donnas, teenagers and transitions and Management attention to Blog!

17-Sep-06

Added Working memory to Memory. Added Compound metaphor, Dead metaphor, Dormant metaphor and Dying metaphor to Types of metaphor. Added Environmental factors to Listening. Added Starting work and Selling shampoo to Blog!

10-Sep-06

Added Active and passive verbs to Parts of speech. Added Types of listening to Listening. Added Types of metaphor to Metaphor, including Absolute metaphor, Active metaphor and Complex metaphor. Added Traps in reflecting and Rogers' five feedback types to Reflecting. Added Start of term and other beginnings and Job threat to Blog!

3-Sep-06

Added Sensory metaphors to Metaphor, including Metaphors and touch, Metaphors and sight, Metaphors and sound and Metaphors, taste and smell. Added Mirroring and Matching to Reflecting in Conversation techniques. Added Managing C-players to Performance Management. Added Mom'n'Pop service and Showbiz and politics to Blog!

27-Aug-06

Added Physical metaphors to Metaphor, including Metaphors and things, Metaphors and space, Metaphors and time and Metaphors and energy. Added Reflecting words and Reflecting verbal style to Reflecting. Added Tells to Understanding body language. Added Promotion and leadership to Blog!

20-Aug-06

Added Shock and awe and Wit and wisdom to Opening the conversation. Added Slow down, Spot a friend and Summarize to Closing the conversation. Added Rhetorical questions to Questioning techniques. Started Metaphor in Use of Language with Metaphor basics, including Metaphor definition, Parts of a metaphor and How metaphors work. Added Holidays and breaking up time and Managing managers to Blog!

13-Aug-06

Back from holidays! Added Cultural change planning to Planning for change. Added A-, B- and C-jobs and Managing B-players to Performance Management.  Added Phone calls, Procrastinating and Short answers to Closing the conversation. Added Holidays and breaking up time to Blog!

30-Jul-06

Added Hobbes and Power to Power. Added Generalization to Modifying meaning. Added Listening styles to Listening. Added Feign ignorance, Introduce a friend and Out of time to Closing the conversation. Added Extrapolating and Synergizing to Reflecting. Added Romance lives and Summer holiday, beginner's mind to Blog!

23-Jul-06

Added Cornering them to Negotiation mistakes. Added Omission to Modifying meaning. Added Closed questions, Declare completion and Excuse yourself to Closing the conversation. Added Reflecting to Conversation techniques, starting with Parroting and Paraphrasing. Added Four types of justice to Trust. Added A diamond negotiation and 2-3-4 Training to Blog!

16-Jul-06

Added Thinking in absolutes to Negotiation mistakes. Added Five Common Human Concerns to Values. Added Kluckholn and Strodtbeck's Dimensions of Culture to Culture. Added Schwartz's Value Inventory to Values and Culture. Added Domestic negotiation, Everyday negotiation and Hierarchical negotiation to Negotiation styles (and revised the page). Added 30 years on, Bush, Blair and brand and Learning from Margie to Blog!

09-Jul-06

Added Tonal patterns and The Triple to Using repetition. Started Closing the conversation section in Conversation techniques, with Be negative, Body pointing and Caught short. Added The selection spiral to Selection. Added The Competing Values Framework to Culture. Added The power of coffee, Avian Flu and 7/7, one year on to Blog!

02-Jul-06

Added Introduce yourself and Script the start to Opening the conversation. Added Nagging, Rhyme and Slogan to Using repetition. Added Funnel questioning to Questioning techniques.  Added Hall's Cultural factors to Culture. Added Loyalty traps and Abundance, HP and networking to Blog!

25-Jun-06

Added complete section with about 50 pages on stories in Syque web. Added Use environmental triggers, Get to the point and Greeting to to Opening the conversation. Started Their name in Conversation techniques with  Finding their name, Remembering their name and Using their name. Added Emotional arousal to Emotions. Added Breakfast negotiations and Missing life to Blog!

18-Jun-06

Revised Aggressive body language and added Dominant body language to Using Body Language. Started Conversation techniques section with Opening the conversation, including Ask them easy questions, Ask them about themselves and Check your list. Added Types of brand to Brand management. Added The jackhammer, Jingles and Motto to Using repetition. Added RSS streams. Added Meritocratic benefits and Ten minutes of fame to Blog!

11-Jun-06

Added Signals to Communication. Started Job-finding in Disciplines, with Impression management, Interview success and Interview tips. Rearranged General persuasion techniques and started Using repetition with Alliteration, The Dripping Tap and The hammer. Added Secret trials and Demons and superstitions to Blog!

4-Jun-06

Added Gesture types to Body Language. Added The meaning of colors to Communication. Added Low-ball and That's not all to General persuasion techniques. Added Touching to Using Body Language. Added Dogs and termination and Boyfriends and parents to Blog!

28-May-06

Added Only way out and Sympathy to Interrogation. Added Getting referrals and Using referrals to Sales articles. Added Two-process theory, Interference theory and Multiple-route recall to Memory. Added Trying stuff and Canine persuasion to Blog!

21-May-06

Added Lie detectors, News and Nobody cares to Interrogation. Added Conscious and competence to Learning Theory. Added Type A and Type B personalities to Preferences and to Personality. Added Objectification to Modifying meaning. Added Nominalization to Parts of speech and Modifying meaning. Added Seeing the doctor, Techie again and Practical jokes, schadenfreude and group membership to Blog!

14-May-06

Added Haptic communication, Kinesic communication and Proxemic communication to Understanding body language. Added Informality and Inquisition to Interrogation. Added Words, Music and Dance to Communication. Added Practical reasoning to Making the argument. Added Exams and anchors and Conflict resolution and the guy at the top to Blog!

07-May-06

Added the The three-stage negotiation process to Negotiation, including Opening, Bargaining and Closing. Added Powerlessness to Power. Added Critical discussion to Making the argument. Added Three essential qualities to Politics. Plus Getting better seats and Elegant hotels, celebrities and manners in Blog!

30-Apr-06

Added The eight-stage negotiation process to Negotiation including Prepare, Open, Argue, Explore, Signal, Package, Close and Sustain. Plus Ostriches and Idea viruses in Blog!

23-Apr-06

Added around 100 pages in new sections in Psychoanalysis and Sociology in Disciplines, plus Identity and Critical Theory in Explanations. Plus Going to the theatre and Newspaper communism to Blog!

In Psychoanalysis are sections on Theorists in psychoanalysis, Concepts in psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis articles.

Theorists in psychoanalysis include Sigmund Freud, Jaques Lacan, Melanie Klein, Julia Kristeva, Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion.

Concepts in psychoanalysis include Abjection, The chora, Counter-transference, The depressive position, Desire, Good object, bad object, The good-enough mother, Identification, Incorporation, Internalization, Introjective identification, Jouissance, Life and death drives, Mirror phase, Narcissism, The neonatal phase, Object, Object Relations Theory, Oedipus Complex, Other, The paranoid-schizoid position, Phallus, Phantasy vs. fantasy, Play, Pleasure-pain principle, Projection and Introjection, Projective identification, Reality principle, Splitting, The Symbolic register, Three registers of human reality, Transference, The Transition Object and True self, false self.

Psychoanalysis articles include Psychoanalysis is..., Group behavior and psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis and society, Psychoanalysis and mourning, Early and Late Freud, Freud and sex, Infant sexuality, Lacanian psychoanalysis and Winnicott's development stages.

Sociology includes articles on Ethnicity and identity, Feminism and identity, Individual and society and Institutionalization, plus notes on theorists: Marcel Mauss, Pierre Bourdieu, Norbert Elias and Max Weber.

Identity includes Identity is..., Death and identity, Ethnicity and identity, Feminism and identity, Foucault and identity, A history of the self, Legal identity, Life histories, Masks, Movies and identity, Other, Personal name, Queer theory, Subject, and Suture.

Critical theory concepts include What is Critical Theory, Death of the author, Diff?ance, Episteme, Ideology, Interpellation, Ideological State Apparatus, Langue and Parole, Signifier and Signified, Synchrony and Diachrony and Syntagm and Paradigm.

Schools of thought in Critical Theory include Postmodernism, Post-structuralism, Postmodernism, Semiotics and Structuralism.

Theorists in Critical Theory include Louis Althusser, Emile Benveniste, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jaques Derrida and Michel Foucault.

15-Apr-06

Added Management causality mapping to Change techniques. Added Political negotiation, Selling and buying and Hostage negotiations to Negotiation styles. Added Easiest way out, Extreme tactics and Good cop, bad cop to Interrogation. Added The talking stick and Fishes and ponds to Blog! Added Notes for students and Notes for webmasters and others.

09-Apr-06

Added The newspaper method to Communication. Added Emotional body language to Using Body Language. Added War, Widows and orphans and Wince to Negotiation tactics. Added Already know, Authority and power and Dire consequences to Interrogation. Added The job application dilemma, Rock climbing and change and Busking to Blog!

02-Apr-06

Added Attachment Theory to Academic Theories. Added The Johari Window to Communication. Added Trial balloon and Undiscussable to Negotiation tactics. Added Rules for respondents, Four stages of interrogation and Interrogation questions to Interrogation. Added High Probability Selling to Book reviews. Added Bad website designInspirational Teaching and Going to the dentist to Blog!

26-Mar-06

Added Shotgun, Split the difference and Take it or leave it to Negotiation tactics. Added Betty Crocker's Egg to Analysis. Started section on Interrogation. Ad, including Interrogation is..., Rules of interrogation and Four rules for interrogators. Added Childhood memories, Averting gaze on the train and Blue funks and cosmic dust to Blog!

19-Mar-06

Added Red herring, Russian Front, Reducing choice and See you in court to Negotiation tactics. Added Redefinition to Modifying meaning. Added Relaxed body language to Using Body Language. Added Job-hopping and careers, Buying boys' toys and A parent's despair to Blog!

12-Mar-06

Added Padding, Phasing and Plant to Negotiation tactics. Added Industrial relations, Managing board and International to Negotiation styles. Added Bennis' leadership qualities to Leadership articles. Added Roadster heaven, Waiting for the train and Discovering Deming to Blog!

05-Mar-06

Added Foot In The Door (FITD), Door In The Face (DITF) and Bait-and-switch to General persuasion techniques. Added Squeezing too much, Talking too much and Win-lose to Negotiation mistakes. Added The need to repeat to Needs. Added There's a Fine Line Between a Groove and a Rut to Book reviews. Added Conforming to stereotype and Selling chocolate to Blog!

26-Feb-06

Added Servant leadership to Leadership styles. Added No authority, Non-negotiable and Overwhelm to Negotiation tactics. Added Short sentences to Persuasive language. Added book review of Leadership and Liberation to Book reviews. Added Who am I?, Leadership and Integrity in Change and Free beer? and also Blogs by subject archive to Blog!

19-Feb-06

Added Misunderstanding power, One solution and Over-wanting to Negotiation mistakes. Added Reducing faking in tests, Reliability and Validity to Selection in Human Resources. Added Wooing journalists to Analysis. Added Rude courage and values to Blog!

12-Feb-06

Added Double bind questions to Questioning techniques. Added Location management to Negotiation activities, including Negotiation geography, The building for the negotiation, The negotiation room, Layout of the negotiation room and Negotiation room seating. Added Building assertive beliefs and Disagreeing to Assertiveness. Added Creaks and cures and Listening to teacher to Blog!

05-Feb-06

Added Transportation Model, Viewpoint, Levels of abstraction to Communication. Added New issue, New player and Nibbling to Negotiation tactics. Added Introjection to Coping Mechanisms. Added Identity crises and Funny adverts to Blog! Put search at the top of the page.

29-Jan-06

Added The Heist: Programmed criminals to Analysis. Added Lawyer, Leaking, Linking and Lowball to Negotiation tactics. Added Missing strengths and Misunderstanding authority to Negotiation mistakes. Added Deliberate Eccentricity and Stories and change to Blog!

22-Jan-06

Added Good guy/bad guy, Hire an expert, Incremental conversion and Interim trade to Negotiation tactics. Added Giving criticism and Receiving criticism to Assertiveness. Added Introjection to Coping Mechanisms. Added Baseline Selling to Book reviews. Added Risk-taking, bonding and ghosts, Assimosis and other neologisms and Ghetto rules to Blog!

15-Jan-06

Added Praise to Assertiveness. Added Features and benefits to Sales articles. Added Hurting the relationship and Issue fixation to Negotiation mistakes. Added Forced choice, Funny money and Fragmentation to Negotiation tactics. Added Bullies and consequences, Jumping on ice and Superstitions to Blog!

08-Jan-06

Added Toffler's Three Forms of Power to Power. Added Tricks, kicks and bricks to Negotiation articles. Added False deadline, Faking, Fame and Flattery to Negotiation tactics. Added Temporal language to Persuasive language. Added January Sales and A serious student to Blog!

1-Jan-06

Revised Understanding body language to include Uses of non-verbal communication and Reading non-verbals, plus added Mehrabian's communication study. Added Escalating demand and Fair criteria to Negotiation tactics. Updated Saying no and Receiving criticism in Assertiveness. Added Being Santa to Blog!

24-Dec-05

Added Political Psychology and The Mature Mind to Book reviews. Added Handling opposition to Negotiation activities. Added Agreement zones to Negotiation articles. Added Deadlines, Dry well, Empty pockets and Empty promises to Negotiation tactics. Added Information Manipulation Theory to Academic Theories. Added Christmas compliance, How to lose and election and Seasonal transformation to Blog!

18-Dec-05

Added Delays, Divide and conquer, Doomsday and Double agent to Negotiation tactics. Added Controlling the process and The right time to negotiate to Negotiation articles. Added Researching the other side to Negotiation activities. Added Fragmentation principle to Persuasion principles. Added Happy Mondays, Bailey's 1, Sleep 0 and Out with the boys to Blog!

11-Dec-05

Added Changing standards, Check the facts, Control the agenda and Credentials to Negotiation tactics. Added The three-part message, Asking and Saying no to Assertiveness. Added Friends in need, real friends and fairweather friends, Barmecidal feasts, Emperor's clothes, social rules and leadership and Begging to Blog!

04-Dec-05

Added Saying what you want, Standing up for your rights and Speaking your truths to Assertiveness. Added The walk-away alternative to Negotiation articles. Added Developing your walk-away and Deploying your walk-away to Negotiation activities. Added The Tao of Conflict, Lollygagging, Friends and fathers to Blog!

27-Nov-05

Added Call girl, Cards on the table, Change the negotiator and Changing standards to Negotiation tactics. Added Guiding decisions and Isolating the issues to Negotiation activities. Added Getting Past No to Book reviews. Added Transaction cost to Trust. Added Dogs and motivation, Joe's Jottings and Transaction costs, trust and outsourcing to Blog!

20-Nov-05

Added Positive questions to Questioning techniques. Added Bluff, Breaking it off and Brooklyn optician to Negotiation tactics. Started Assertiveness in Techniques, with Assertiveness is..., Aggressive behavior and Passive behavior. Added Distress to Emotions. Added Change projects and people, Birthdays and life and Telethons and fund-raising to Blog!

13-Nov-05

Added Skilled Interpersonal Communication to Book reviews. Added Better than that, Biased choice and Big fish to Negotiation tactics. Added Needs, wants and likes to Negotiation articles. Added Prioritizing to Negotiation activities. Started Negotiation mistakes with Accepting positions, Accepting statements and Hurrying. Added Nature and negotiating like a child and Fair pay, fair play to Blog!

06-Nov-05

Added Auction, Bad publicity and Better offer to Negotiation tactics. Added Positions and interests to Negotiation articles. Started Negotiation activities, with Finding variables and Finding fair criteria. Added Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech to Analysis. Added Analogical reasoning to Types of reasoning. Added The Revenue Protection Officers, Persuasion blogs -- blogs that persuade, Political blunders and the power of the press and Bonfires and Punishment to Blog!

30-Oct-05

Started Negotiation section in Disciplines, with The spectrum of negotiation styles, Collaborative negotiation, Competitive negotiation and Balanced negotiation. Also started Negotiation tactics, with Highball, Quivering quill and Slicing. Plus Negotiation articles, starting with Negotiation is... and Fairness in negotiation. Added Dancing and Soft drinks adverts -- bad and good to Blog!

23-Oct-05

Added Strong and weak commitment to The psychology of change.  Rebuilt Trust section, including The effects of betrayal. Added Accuracy and faking, Faking and deviance and Personality and job success to Selection. Added Enhancing memory and Encoding specificity principle to Memory. Added Culture, brands and selling,

Changing your own mind and Teenagers to new Blog!

16-Oct-05

Added the Blog! Added  Visible thought: The new psychology of body language to Book reviews. Added The price-quality heuristic to Decisions. Started Communication in Disciplines, including SMCR Model, Media fidelity and Signal response. Added Psychometric tests, Personality tests, Resum?/ Curriculum Vitae and Work sample to Selection.

09-Oct-05

Started section on Politics in Disciplines, including Coalitions, Political power, Stages of a campaign and Characteristics of successful campaigns. Started section on Memory in Explanations, including Multi-store model, Sensory memory, Short-term memory and Long-term memory.

02-Oct-05

Added George Carmen, QC to Analysis. Added Interview, Intelligence tests and Psychometric tests to Selection. Added The size heuristic to Decisions. Added Trivializing words to Persuasive language. Added Hofstede's Asian cultural factors to Culture.

24-Sep-05

Added Broken record to Resisting persuasion. Added Modifying meaning to Use of Language, moving some pages here and adding Weasel words, Qualifiers and Intensifiers. Added Persuasive language section to Use of Language, including Final impact. Updated Site map.

17-Sep-05

Added Won't work, Yes, but and Yes, yes, no to Resisting persuasion. Added Application form, Assessment centers and Biodata to Selection in Human Resources. Added Supernanny to Analysis.

10-Sep-05

Added Tag questions to Questioning techniques. Added Motivating gaps to Motivation. Added Performance Management to Human Resources, including ABC Analysis, Setting goals and SMART Objectives.

03-Sep-05

Added Interview, Critical Incident Technique and Repertory Grid to Job Analysis. Started General persuasion techniques, including Rank's Intensify/Downplay schema, Monroe's Motivated Sequence and Using evidence.

28-Aug-05

Added Human Resources to Disciplines, with aspects of Job Analysis including Structured questionnaire, Process analysis, Observation, Self-reports and Participation. Added Stress Management to Techniques.

21-Aug-05

Still on holiday. Now in Rovinj (Croatia). Beautiful. Completed work on the Quality Toolbook website. Now there's over 3000 pages of solid content on the web across all my sites. All free.

14-Aug-05

On holiday! Rome for a week. History on every corner. Web-wise, working on converting my 400-page book on problem solving and improvement into the Quality Toolbook website.

07-Aug-05

Added Using humor to techniques, including Benefits of using humor, Becoming a child, Laughter and Politically-incorrect humor. Added Unfair process and What about to Resisting persuasion.

30-Jul-05

Added Power sales and updated Terrorist bombs in Analysis. Completed Using punctuation with Quotation marks and Semicolon. Added Tried it, Truth and Unavailable to Resisting persuasion.

24-Jul-05

Started new Analysis section (see left-hand navigation bar too) with topical articles on Live 8 and Terrorist bombs. Added Surprised, Tears and Too... to Resisting persuasion. Added Parentheses and Period to Using punctuation.

17-Jul-05

Added Dash, Ellipsis and Hyphen to Using punctuation in Use of Language. Added Qualifications, Say no, Silence, Splitting hairs and Stonewalling to Resisting persuasion.

10-Jul-05

Started Using punctuation in Use of Language, starting with Apostrophe, Colon and Comma.  Added Name the game, Not my job, Not surprised, Only theory and Procrastination to Resisting persuasion.

3-Jul-05

Added Illogic, Impracticality, Interruption, Mismatching and More data to Resisting persuasion. Added Modulation to Use of Language. Added Customer Roles to Sales articles.

26-Jun-05

Added Higher authority, High ground, Hmm and I'll have to think about it to Resisting persuasion. Added Stress to Explanations, including Causes of stress, Symptoms of stress and Stress costs.

19-Jun-05

Added Fake anger, Filibustering, Flight into health, Fuzzing and Gaze avoidance to Resisting persuasion. Added Ellis' Irrational Beliefs to Beliefs. Added Margerison-McCann Team Performance Wheel to Preferences.

12-Jun-05

Added Data dump, Digression, Denial and Escalation to Resisting persuasion. Added The personal-closure trap to Sales articles. Added Personality is to Personality. Added Social Influence to Academic Theories.

5-Jun-05

Added Stepwise change, Visioning and Whole-system Planning to Change techniques in Change Management. Added Causal Analysis and Change Complexity Analysis to Diagnosing change. Added Lewin's freeze phases to Change Management, including Unfreezing techniques, Transitioning techniques and Refreezing techniques. This completes current work on Change Management (over 100 pages!).

28-May-05

Added Setting goals, Shift-and-sync, Socializing and Spill-and-fill to Change techniques. Added new section on Resisting persuasion to Techniques, including Attack, Blame, Can't afford it and Confusion.

21-May-05

Added Making the argument to Argument, including addition of Argument elements, Making the case, Proposition and Refuting arguments. Added Kipling questions to Questioning techniques. Added Creating a Positive Culture to Culture.

14-May-05

Added Traditional logic, Pros-vs-cons reasoning, Set-based reasoning, Systemic reasoning and Syllogistic reasoning to Types of reasoning. Added the Ultimatum Close to Closing techniques and Closing tips to Sales articles in Sales.

07-May-05

Added Decompositional reasoning, Deductive reasoning, Inductive reasoning and Modal logic to Types of reasoning in Argument. Added Adjournment Close to Closing techniques. Added Satir's Stress Responders to Personality.

30-Apr-05

Started Types of reasoning in Argument, including Cause-and-effect reasoning, Cause-to-effects reasoning, Effects-to-cause reasoning, Comparative reasoning, Conditional reasoning and Criteria reasoning. Added Primary and secondary emotions to Emotions.

24-Apr-05

Added Management by Objectives (MBO), Open Space, Re-education, Restructuring, Reward alignment and Rites of passage to Change techniques. Added the Hurry Close to Closing techniques. Added Amplification principle to Principles. Added Feedback Form to Contact page. Removed forum (annoying ads!). Added simple Guestbook.

17-Apr-05

Added Personal Construct Theory to Academic Theories. Added Facilitation, First steps, Golden handcuffs, Institutionalization and Involvement to Change techniques. Added Deception principle and Perception principle to Principles.

10-Apr-05

Added Challenge, Coaching, Command, Destabilizing, Evidence for change, Evidence stream and Education to Change techniques in Change Management. Also added Specificity principle to Principles.

3-Apr-05

Added Using syntax to Use of Language, including: Sentences, including Using simple sentences, Using compound sentences and Using irregular sentences. Also Using statements, Using questions, Using commands and Using exclamations. Then detail in Clauses, Clause arrangement and Phrases.

27-Mar-05

Added Creating change to Change Management, with Boiling the frog, Burning bridges and Burning platform. Added Virtues of Style to Argument, including Clarity, Correctness, Evidence, Ornateness and Propriety.

20-Mar-05

Added Managing the change project, including Organizing for change, Sponsorship of change and Styles of change to Change Management. Added Style over Substance, Undistributed Middle, Unrepresentative Sample and Wishful Thinking to Fallacies. Reorganized Fallacies to include Full alphabetic list of fallacies plus too many other groupings to list here.

13-Mar-05

Added Planning for change, including Scope of change, Styles of change, The Change Delivery Plan and The Commitment Plan to Change Management. Added Slippery Slope, Social Conformance and Strawman to Fallacies.

6-Mar-05

Added The nature of opposition, The nature of support and Stakeholder mapping to Change Management. Added Personal Inconsistency, Poisoning the Well, Post Hoc, Red Herring and Repetition to Fallacies. Added Personality is to Personality.

27-Feb-05

Added Stakeholders in change, with Types of stakeholder, Researching stakeholders, Stakeholder interests and Stakeholder personal analysis to Change Management. Added In a Certain Respect and Simply, Insignificance, Logical Inconsistency, Many Questions and Missing the Point to Fallacies.

20-Feb-05

Added Causal Analysis and Change Complexity Analysis to Diagnosing change in Change Management, as well as The K?ler-Ross grief cycle that includes Shock, Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Testing and Acceptance stages. Added Transference and Freud's theories to Behaviors.

13-Feb-05

Added Diagnosing change, with Historical Review, Context Analysis, Cultural Analysis and Structural Analysis to Change Management. Added Gambler's Fallacy, Hasty Generalization, Illicit Major and Illicit Minor to Fallacies. Added Substitution principle to Principles.

06-Feb-05

Added Accepting the brief, The first meeting, Investigating realities and Agreeing the contract to Change Management. Added False Analogy, False Cause, False Compromise, False Dilemma, False Effect and Four Terms to Fallacies.

30-Jan-05

Added Signs of resistance, Dealing with resistance, How to cause resistance and Responding to unexpected resistance to Change Management. Added Denying the Antecedent, Division, Equivocation and Excluded Middle to Fallacies.

22-Jan-05

Added Site map and Forum (please do join in!). Added Resistance to change, Rationale for resistance, The resistance zoo, Signs of resistance to Change Management. Added Active listening, High-integrity listening and Listen to the inner person to Listening.

15-Jan-05

Started new section in Disciplines  on Change Management, with The Change Imperative, The psychology of change, Initial concerns and Initial reactions. Added Bad listening habits and Good listening habits to Listening. Added Begging the Question, Complex Question and Composition to Fallacies.

08-Jan-05

Started new section on Listening in Techniques, including Why you should listen, Why people do not listen and Depth of listening. Added Appeal to Tradition, Argument from Ignorance, Assertion and Attack the Person. Also added Kolb's Learning Styles and The Learning Cycle to Learning Theory.

01-Jan-05

Completed Parts of speech with Adverbs, with Enhancing with adverbs and Quantifying with adverbs. With Prepositions, including Prepositions of place and Preposition of time. Also Conjunctions, including Types of conjunction, Associating with conjunctions, Complexifying with conjunctions and Adding conditions with conjunctions. And finally Interjections, with Using exclamations and Using hesitation devices.

26-Dec-04

Christmas bonus: Lots on Parts of speech with Verbs, including Types of verb, Completion with verbs, Possibility with verbs and Imperative with verbs. Also Adjectives, with Enhancing with adjectives, Quantifying with adjectives, Definite and indefinite articles, Comparatives and Superlatives and Cardinals and Ordinals.

19-Dec-05

Added Propaganda section to Techniques, including four articles on propaganda: What is propaganda?, A brief history of Propaganda, Military, media and education and Modern propaganda, plus seven common techniques: Bandwagon, Card-stacking, Glittering generalities, Name-calling, Plain folks, Testimonial and Transfer.

12-Dec-04

Added Appeal to Fear, Appeal to Novelty, Appeal to Pity and Appeal to Ridicule to Fallacies. Started Parts of speech in Use of Language, including Nouns, Using concrete nouns, Using abstract nouns, Pronouns, Types of pronoun, Connecting with pronouns and Pronouns and possession.

5-Dec-04

Added Appeal to Authority, Appeal to Common Belief, Appeal to Common Practice and Appeal to Emotion to Fallacies. Added Aristotle's Five canons of rhetoric to Argument, including Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory and Delivery. Added Selling with Questions to Sales articles and Questioning techniques.

28-Nov-04

Added Enthymeme, Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens to Syllogisms. Added Using pauses to Use of Language. Added Fallacies to Argument, starting with Accent, Accident, Affirming the Consequent and Amphiboly.

21-Nov-04

Added Set Theory and Syllogisms to Argument, including Categorical syllogism, Conditional syllogism and Disjunctive syllogism. Added Power words to Use of Language. Added The Betari Box to Behaviors.

14-Nov-04

Started Argument section in Disciplines, with Argument structure, Toulmin's argument model, Three ways to persuade and Categorical propositions. Added Aristotle's Ethics to Values. Added Responding to questions to Questioning techniques.

7-Nov-04

Added LAARC to Objection-handling. Added Defensive body language to Using Body Language. Added Symbolization, Trivializing, Undoing and Defense Mechanisms to Coping Mechanisms. Added Qualifiers to use of language.

31-Oct-04

Added Repression, Somatization, Sublimation and Suppression to Coping Mechanisms. Added Personality to Explanations and Freud's Personality Factors to Personality. Added Floppy language to Language. Added review of The Marketing Playbook.

24-Oct-04

Added Projection, Rationalization, Reaction Formation and Regression to Coping Mechanisms. Added Sheldon's Body Personality to Personality. Added Submissive body language to Using Body Language. Added American values to Values.

17-Oct-04

Added Idealization, Identification, Intellectualization and Passive aggression to Coping Mechanisms. Added Stress values to Values. Added Charity collection, Movie auditions and Valet parking to Confidence tricks. Split up the rather long Links page into separate pages for each topic.

10-Oct-04

Added Denial, Displacement, Dissociation and Fantasy to Coping Mechanisms. Added Franklin's Thirteen Virtues and Value categories to Values.

03-Oct-04

Added Compartmentalization, Compensation and Conversion to Coping Mechanisms. Added Leadership articles to Leadership, including The Core Purpose of Governance, Motivation of Leaders, Leadership vs. Management and When Leadership is not needed.

26-Sep-04

Added Coping Mechanisms to Behaviors, including Acting out, Aim inhibition, Attack and Avoidance. Added Confidence tricks to Techniques, including ATM Security, Movie auditions and Bootleg video.

19-Sep-04

Added Conversion articles to Conversion techniques, including Conversion is, Brainwashing, Cults, Exhaustion, confusion, suggestion and The vulnerable persona. Added Conditioning in Behaviors, including Four stressors, The dog temperaments, Extinction and Three stages of breakdown.

12-Sep-04

Added Hassan's BITE and Sudden Conversion Syndrome to Conversion theories. Added Power body language and Social distances to Using Body Language. Added The Brain Syndrome to Brain stuff. Added Freud's Psychosexual Stage Theory to Learning stage theories.

5-Sep-04

Added Conversion theories to Conversion techniques page, including Brainwashing, Lifton's Brainwashing Processes, Lifton's Thought Reform and Schein's stages of conversion. Added Sales Training and Sales Wisdom to Sales articles.

29-Aug-04

Added Identity destruction, Special language and Thought-stopping to Conversion techniques. Added Cults to Conversion. Added Striving and Thought-stopping to Retention techniques.

22-Aug-04

Added Love Bomb and Persistence to Conversion techniques. Added Polarization and Special language to Retention techniques. also added Special language to language techniques. Went on holiday!

15-Aug-04

Added Guilt, Higher purpose, Information Control and Incremental conversion to Conversion techniques. Added Isolation, Keeping busy and Blind obedience to Retention techniques. Added ADAPT to Sales methods, added Three Customer Types to Sales articles and did some tidying of the Sales front page.

08-Aug-04

Started section on Conversion, with Conversion techniques that include Breaking sessions, Changing values, Confession, Entrancement and Engagement, plus Retention techniques with Asset-stripping, Confession and Entrancement.

01-Aug-04

Added Transformational Leadership, Bass' Transformational Leadership Theory, Burns' Transformational Leadership Theory, Kouzes and Posner's Leadership Participation Inventory to Leadership theories. Added Strategic Contingencies Theory to theories about power. Added Sales articles to Sales, starting with Customer Personalities and Dealing with No.

25-Jul-04

Added Contingency Theory, Fiedler's Least Preferred Co-worker (LPC) Theory, Cognitive Resource Theory, Transactional Leadership Theory and Leader-Member Exchange Theory to Leadership theories. Added Objection Chunking, Objection Renaming and Objection Writing to Objection-handling.

18-Jul-04

Added Participative Leadership, Lewin's leadership styles, Likert's leadership styles, Situational Leadership, Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership, Vroom and Yetton's Normative Model and House's Path-Goal Theory of Leadership to Leadership styles.

11-Jul-04

Started Leadership theories with Great Man Theory, Trait Theory, Behavioral Theory, Role Theory and The Managerial Grid. Added Customer-care Close and Valuable Customer Close to Closing techniques.

04-Jul-04

Added 'Recognize me' game to Games. Added Erikson's Developmental Stage Theory to Learning stage theories. Added Followers and Trust, Followers and Liking and Followers and Ideas to Followership. Added The Managerial Grid and Lewin's leadership styles to Leadership styles.

27-Jun-04

Added Situational Leadership, Transformational Leadership and The Quiet Leader to Leadership styles. Added Followers and Respect and Followers and Trust to Followership. Also revised Lying and added Duper's delight.

20-Jun-04

Started Leadership section in Disciplines, with Charismatic Leadership, Transactional Leadership and Transformational Leadership in Leadership styles, plus The Leader-Follower loop and Five reasons to follow in Followership.

13-Jun-04

Added Belief Bias to Theories and Syllogistic Reasoning and Conditional Reasoning to Decisions. Added Distraction Close, Trial Close and Yes-set Close to Closing techniques page.

6-Jun-04

Added Learning Theory page, including Learning Channel Preferences and Stage Theories of Piaget's Stage Theory, Kohlberg's Moral Stage Theory and Fowler's Faith Stage Theory.  And also added Testimonial Close and Treat Close to Closing techniques page.

29-May-04

Added The Leadership Challenge book review. Added Shame Close, Standing-room-only Close and Summary Close to Closing techniques page. Added Types of objection to Objection-handling page.

21-May-04

Added Changing values, Breaking sessions and Engagement to Cult methods. Added LACE objection management and Feel, felt, found to Objection-handling page.

17-May-04

Started Cult methods in Techniques section, including The Love Bomb and Persistence. Added Reversal Close and Selective-deafness Close to Closing techniques page.

10-May-04

Added big section on Social Research history and philosophy (25 pages - some quite long!) to Explanations. Also started sister website: CreatingMinds.org with over 300 pages!

3-May-04

Started Brand management discipline with four articles, including Brand is, Brand management and The Tao of Branding. Added Confidence principle, Pull and Push principle (modified from Coercion) to Principles page.

26-Apr-04

Added Repetition Close and Retrial Close to Closing techniques page. Added Pre-empting objections, Objection Writing, Pushback, Reframing and Change priority of objections to Objection-handling page.

19-Apr-04

Added Friendship principle to Principles page. Added Ownership Close and Price-promise Close to Closing techniques page. Added Curiosity and Justification to Objection-handling page.

12-Apr-04

Added Relationship selling, One-off selling, LAIR and SELL to Sales, as well as the Courtship Close to Closing techniques. Added Boomerang and Deflection to Objection-handling.

Also sadly had to close the Forum for now, as it has been hacked.

05-Apr-04

Added Economic Close, Quality Close to Closing techniques page. Started Objection-handling page  in Sales, including Objection-handling process, Tipping the bucket and Handing objections with humor. Added Self-Monitoring Behavior to Theories.

28-Mar-04

Revised Theories front end, including 26 new pages for theory groups. Added No-hassle Close, Now-or-never Close and Now-or-never Close to Closing techniques page.

21-Mar-04

New layout! Added Humor Close, IQ Close, Never-the-best-time Close and No-hassle Close to Closing techniques page. Added Emotion and decision to Emotions page. Added Four components of success to new Meaning page.

14-Mar-04

Added the Care-Behavior Matrix to Behaviors page and Beliefs about people to Beliefs page. Added Future Close and Golden Bridge Close to Closing techniques page.

7-Mar-04

Added Companion Close, Embarrassment Close, Emotion Close, Empathy Close, Empty-offer Close to Closing techniques.

29-Feb-04

Added Wittgenstein's language games to Games page. Added 1-2-3 Close, Concession Close, Demonstration Close and Doubt Close to Closing techniques page.

22-Feb-04

Added Bonus Close, Bracket Close, Calendar Close, Compliment Close and Conditional Close on Closing techniques page. Also added Speech Act Theory and assorted new Links.

15-Feb-04

Added Affordable Close, Assumptive Close, Balance-sheet Close and Best-time Close to Closing techniques page. Revised Questioning traps. Completed Self-actualization too.

8-Feb-04

Started Disciplines section with Sales and Closing techniques of the Alternative Close and

Puppy Close, plus the AIDA, SPIN Selling and Customer-Centered Selling methods. Added Similarity to Principles page.

1-Feb-04

Added Columbo technique, Group questioning, Questioning traps and Socratic questioning, all to the

Questioning techniques page.

24-Jan-04

Added Perceived-Ownership Effect to Decisions page. Also Chunking questions, Clear questions and Leading questions to Questioning techniques page. Changed menu to incorporate techniques.

17-Jan-04

Added Using humor, including Benefits of using humor, Becoming a child and Politically-incorrect humor.

10-Jan-04

Added Open body language, Closed body language, Aggressive body language and Romantic body language to Using Body Language page. Fixed a few duff links.

3-Jan-04

Added Alignment, Framing and Harmony to Principles page. Updated Definitions of Culture page.

27-Dec-03

Added Body Language page to techniques, starting with Emphasis with body language and the Body language caveat.

20-Dec-03

Started Techniques page! First off, added the use of language with emphasis and emphasis in writing.

13-Dec-03

Added Causes of stress and Symptoms of stress to Brain stuff page.

6-Dec-03

Added Stop me if you can to Games page. Added Bounded Rationality to Academic References.

Added more Links.

29-Nov-03

Added Tension, Trust and Understanding to Principles page.

22-Nov-03

Added Scarcity, Surprise, and Threat to Principles page.

15-Nov-03

Added Self vs. Others preference to Preferences page. Added Interest, Investment and Repetition to Principles page.

8-Nov-03

Added Mintzberg's Political games, Territorial Games and War game to Games page. Added Closure and Coercion to Principles.

1-Nov-03

Added Empathy and Association and emotion to Emotions page. Added Empathizing vs. Objectifying to Preferences page. Also James-Lange and Cannon-Bard theories of emotion to  Theories pages.

25-Oct-03

Added Arousal, Objectivity and Reciprocity to Principles page. Also Four Types in Preferences page.

18-Oct-03

Added pride, guilt, happiness and sadness to the emotions page. Added to travel hopefully, the Drama Triangle and 'Poor me' to the Games page. Added a short page on Body language to the Behaviors page. And added the discussion forum. A busy week!

11-Oct-03

Added 'Catch me' and 'Clever me' games to Games page, plus book review of Territorial Games and The Two Step. Revised the Links page. And the Bookshop is now up and running!

05-Oct-03

Started Games section, including Games, Pastimes, Procedures, Game purpose, 'Attraction-rejection' game and Blame game.

28-Sep-03

Added Dependence, Evidence, Experience and Logic to Principles page.

21-Sep-03

Added Contrarian vs. Conformist to Preferences. Added Daring, Distraction and Hurt and Rescue to Principles page.

14-Sep-03

Added Blackmail, Confusion, Consistency and Contrast to Principles page. Also added search to this (home) page.

7-Sep-03

Started Principles section! Including Appeal, Association, Assumption, Attention, Authority. Also added Power types and Power enhancers to Power. Also Divergence and convergence to Decisions page.

31-Aug-03

Added 16PF and Big Five factors to Preferences page.

23-Aug-03

Added MMPI, Risk bias, Task vs. Person to preferences page. Updated General Adaptation Syndrome and separated out Fight-or-Flight reaction on Brain page. Tidied up Academic clusters to include content hyperlinks at the beginning.

16-Aug-03

Added MBTI and related items, including Extraversion vs. Introversion, Sensing vs. Intuiting, Thinking vs. Feeling and Judging vs. Percieving to preferences page.

9-Aug-03

A burst of actvity! Added types and typing, Blame vs. Explain,

Belbin Team Types, DISC Types to preferences page.

2-Aug-03

Added Similarity vs. Difference to Preferences page.

26-Jul-03

Added The Context Effect and tidied up the Preferences page.

19-Jul-03

Added Head, hands and heart to preferences page.

12-Jul-03

Added Attraction vs. avoidance to preferences page.

5-Jul-03

Added goals page.

28-Jun-03

Added motivation page and rejigged the explanations page.

21-Jun-03

Added a page on

Transactional Analysis to the currently very early Behaviors page.

14-Jun-03

Added contentment to emotions section.

7-Jun-03

Still on emotions - added repulsion.

31-May-03

Added Purpose of emotions page.

24-May-03

More emotions - added Desire.

17-May-03

More emotions - added Shame.

10-May-03

More work on emotions, adding Fear.

3-May03

Revised links. Flagged those that look dead. Added a few others.

26-Apr-03

Continuing work on emotions, adding Jealousy.

19-Apr-03

More emotions: Envy and Anger.

12-Apr-03

Started work on more emotions, adding Hope and Greed.

5-Apr-03

Did first version of types of belief (though this may change in future). Updated What is belief?

28-Mar-03

Added Value of values, completing current work on Values.

21-Mar-03

Added bits on values, including Values types, and updated Values development and Values page.

14-Mar-03

Added The Amygdala by-pass system to the

Brain page.

7-Mar-03

Started more work on emotions. Added Basic emotions and Emotional Intelligence.

1-Mar-03

More culture. Added Deal and Kennedy's cultural model.

21-Feb-03

Still on culture and Dutch gurus. Added Trompenaars' four cultures.

14-Feb-03

Added Trompenaars' and Hampden-Turner's cultural factors.

1-Feb-03

Added Goffee and Jones' Double-S cultural model (later removed).

21-Jan-03

Added Definitions of Culture and Elements of Culture pages and tidied up the Culture page.

17-Jan-03

Added Glasser's needs and also fixed Mumford's needs at the same time. I need a drink! Also did assorted tidying up. 

04-Jan-03

Starting work on beliefs. Including belief strengths and the formation of belief.

31-Dec-02

Updated Power page. Added French and Raven's Five Forms of Power and Three Dimensions of Power.

30-Sep-02

First uploaded the site. Lots of Explanations (if you can't find it in the above list, this is the date it was added).

25-Dec-98

Got bored at Christmas. Started work on site. One day I'll make it public.

 

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