Hear me out

I spent much of today in Slough of The Office fame, a town boasting possibly the most onomatopoeic place name in Britain.

The occasion was my first consulting job in a few weeks; half a day in a room with seven high-ranking sales and marketing personnel to discuss an upcoming product launch. As I've observed previously getting all the right people in the room in a pre-launch setting is much like aligning planets so I took a day out from the Fringe madness to run the workshop.

Really all I did was swap the task of convincing one lot of perfect strangers that I'm funny for the task of convincing another lot that I'm smart. It still starts with suspension of disbelief.

If they hear you out you're most of the way there.