Author Archives: Lynwood

Order The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers at Amazon.com for a low price of $12.95.  However, the publisher has permitted me [..]

Order The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers at Amazon.com for a low price of $12.95.  However, the publisher has permitted me [..]

Order The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers at Amazon.com for a low price of $12.95.  However, the publisher has permitted me [..]

My book has just been released from the publisher and is now available!  Thanks to all of you for your encouragement, sponsorship, and sound advice during the process. [..]

  One of the most difficult tasks of any technologist is to accurately predict and forecast research, either for yourself or your oversight group.  If your reaction is, [..]

This is Part V and the last in a series on how to properly terminate an employee.  Termination is an unpleasant but sometimes necessary task.  All the more [..]

My technology-persuasion series got interrupted by a fabulous family vacation to Glacier National Park – our second trip there and the only location we have graced twice (which [..]

In the first three parts of our series we discussed the very difficult problem of how to terminate an employee.  We do not refer to  union-controlled jobs or [..]

I am saddened to report that our wonderful Willie Lee Darter has passed away.  I think her to be the only truly good person I have ever known. [..]

In a previous blog we began a series on how to terminate an employee.  The series is not intended to address union-controlled jobs or contract labor.  It applies [..]