Once Is Not Nearly Enough
We saw "Once" last night on Broadway, the musical that won 8 Tonys. It's a bore. The dozen people on stage are hugely talented, all of whom played primarily stringed instruments and sang well. There's a clever opening, where the audience
Guest Column: If They Can Sell Pet Rocks Why Can’t You Sell Your Business For What It’s Worth?
John Martinka is a graduate of the Million Dollar Consulting® College and an expert in small business growth, valuation, and exit strategies. If they can sell pet rocks why can’t you sell your business for what you want? “The Economy Stole My Retirement,”
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 9/3/12
September 3, 2012—Issue #154 This week's focus point: Whatever your politics, people who resort to demonizing the opposition and launching ad hominem attacks simply have no new ideas themselves. We find this in business all the
Good Morning Today
New York Times report: Since NBC removed Ann Curry from the co-host chair on "Today" at the end of June, that show has lost to "Good Morning America" every week with two big exceptions during the highly rated Summer Olympics, which
I’m An Expert. How About You?
I tell consultants all the time to call themselves "experts." People want to hire expertise, not merely a consultant. People don't buy drills to have drills, they buy them because they need holes. In the speaking profession, the dumbest question in the
What Mayor Bloomberg Should Control
Since His Honor manipulated the law to get a historically illegal third term, and is clearly on his way to proclaiming himself Ming the Merciless and renaming Manhattan "Mongo," and Flash Gordon is nowhere to be seen, perhaps with his
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/27/12
August 27, 2012—Issue #153 This week's focus point: In the Little League World Series U.S. finals two days ago, Tennessee had a ten-run lead going into the bottom of the final inning. But California never gave