Carl Howe's article on SeekingAlpha.com (Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field: As Powerful As Ever - SeekingAlpha) tries to distill Job's persuasive speaking style down to eight bullet points; Uses visuals, Focuses on the problem, Says it three times, Stories, Dramatic pauses, Uses Comparisons. Its a good article, worth the read, maybe someday Job's business presentation style will be taught in college, you know... something that can anyone could duplicate, some kind of charismatic formula that a person could learn... but I doubt it.

Now on the other side of the coin, John Dvorak's article on MarketWatch.com (Balmer, iPhone and Reality Distortion Fields)
proposes that Jobs' "reality distortion field" to be some type of eastern mystical transcendental trickery learned while traveling throughout India in his youth. Interesting thought, but a bit on the wacko-side... another one of Dvorak's attempts for publicity, I'm sure. But it is a good read.

My opinion. Steve Jobs is simply a charismatic person. There are actually a lot of people like him out there, but he is (as far as I know) the only one in a position to get attention in the Big Business world. He has a 'hippie' attitude, disregards the status quo and is highly narcissistic. Also, I think he did enough LSD during the 70's to make him crazy, in a good way. The dude is just plain cool. I'm absolutely positive he will go down in history as one of the greatest businessmen, to be included with the likes of Ford, Franklin, Morgan. 
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