PREVIEW

Top-of-the-line responses to bottom-line questions will be covered in the next chapter. So, too, will the encouragements to Dialog, Inquire, Respond, Environ, Contact, and Tie Up, which constitute the DIRECT Approach. Finally, the sins and scintillas of sugar-coating will be explored.

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