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A History of Changes

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 Clichés, 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 Story devices 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