Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 5/17/10
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo®’s mission is to help readers to thrive. May 17, 2010—Issue #35 This week’s focus point: Telling prospects that you're good is likely to quickly bore the other party. But showing them you're the right person for them
Don’t Lie to Me
I've been following the various political frenzies going on in Greece, the UK, and the US. Then there are the investigations into the markets here, and derivatives, and technical trading glitches, and so forth. There are competing marketing claims from
Alan Speaking in Vancouver May 29
I'll be keynoting for he British Columbia Institute of Management Consultants on the morning of May 29. This is open to the pubic, and you can find information and registration here: http://cmc.worldofconsulting.com. I'll be providing techniques for how to accelerate
Alan’s Blog Third Anniversary
An official "thank you" to all of you who have supported me here at www.contrarianconsulting.com, who have submitted comments, and who have made this a fabulous experience for me for the last three years. Who knew? My thanks to Greg Godek
Stop Procrastinating (One of These Days)
Why do we procrastinate and what should we do about it? Before you listen to this podcast perhaps you should do something else. Well
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 5/10/10
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo®’s mission is to help readers to thrive. May 10, 2010—Issue #34 This week’s focus point: Pretending to be something you're not will always creep up on you. Admit you're a solo practitioner, or don't have staff, or
Discover Uncovered
I received one of those hateful automated calls today from Discover Cards, advising me of possible fraud in those mechanical tones that are so irritating and depersonalizing, and demanding that we call as soon as possible. I didn't know we
Twelve Failings That Kill Consultants (And Most Others)
• Failing to return a legitimate email request within a day. NO ONE is so busy that they can't return email messages in a day, unless you are allowing all kinds of spam to intrude or are spending all your