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Many technically or intellectually inclined students choose careers
in engineering, the sciences, and in technologically oriented fields pre-
cisely because they anticipate working with things rather than with
other people, or at worst working with other people like themselves.
Seldom does their educational experience alert them to the fact that
they will one day have to explain their ideas to others, persuade others
of the value of their opinions, and sell their ideas and themselves. Like
innocent sheep, they enter the political environments of large organi-
zations assuming that their great ideas will sell themselves, that only a
stupid person would fail to grasp the value of their contributions.
in engineering, the sciences, and in technologically oriented fields pre-
cisely because they anticipate working with things rather than with
other people, or at worst working with other people like themselves.
Seldom does their educational experience alert them to the fact that
they will one day have to explain their ideas to others, persuade others
of the value of their opinions, and sell their ideas and themselves. Like
innocent sheep, they enter the political environments of large organi-
zations assuming that their great ideas will sell themselves, that only a
stupid person would fail to grasp the value of their contributions.
