This is an invaluable skill when you're not in a place of authority (as I am not), but when you need to convince an authority figure that the idea was actually theirs (even know it wasn't...).

I'm looking for strategies on how to "plant seeds" as it were, after it was suggested by Joel that I try not to win the argument, but rather to plant a seed in hopes of it growing into the authority figures' own idea.

I've never been very subtle, but I'm starting to understand the value of being subtle.