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3.0 out of 5 stars Where were you on the night you read this book?, December 21, 2008
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Carolyn Thornlow "Concinnity Services" (New York) - See all my reviews(REAL NAME) The book does provide some useful information. Foremost is the notion that you can have knowledge, skill and credentials, but still not have your ideas be accepted, i.e., be viewed as an expert. According to Hartley, expertise is about information intersecting with people. If there's no intersection, there's no expertise. Thus, he does spend time noting that you have to take cues from your audience. This seems to open the door for his co-author to talk about body language. Irritatingly, there are pictures of faces with eyes looking up, down, to the rigth, etc. But, there is no connection nor explanation about why those pictures are there. For that matter, there's little connection to the topic: expertise. Hartley then puts forth a barrage of techniques he uses as an interrogator. They are interesting, but not memorable nor useful if you're trying to get your audience to "intersect with information." In essence, this book is about how to act like an interrogator. Frankly, I don't think that kind of "expertise" is what people need.
