Alan’s Thought For Today
You will never be innovative or interesting if you go through life worried about whom you might offend with an idea, statement, or suggestion. In fact, if you're not offending enough people, you may not be trying hard enough. © Alan
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/20/12
August 20, 2012—Issue #152 This week's focus point: I meet far too many people who respond to a new idea or suggestion with, "Let me tell you how I do it," or, "I disagree." Their immediate response
Dumb, Even for Facebook
Stupid platitude of the day on Facebook: "A woman's highest calling is to lead a man to his soul so as to unite him with Source. A man's highest calling is to protect woman so she is free to walk the
Nantucket Redux
My friend, the seal (looking surprisingly like fake photos of the fake Loch Ness Monster).
Alan’s Thought For Today
People who constantly give advice and never ask questions seem to feel they are on some faculty, dispensing wisdom to undergraduates. There is no tenure in life, and you can be "fired" when people become bored listening to you. © Alan
Nantucket 2012—12
We're headed home today after two glorious weeks. It's a drizzly morning, the sky grey, the water slate. The horizon is discernible, I'm guessing about three miles away (it always looks farther than it actually is, sort of like many
Nantucket 2012—11 Breaking and Entering
It all started when I learned how to lock the rear sliding door that leads to the beach. Famously, no one on Nantucket claims they lock their doors, but I'm from New York. I finally found the locking mechanism this
Nantucket 2012—10 Wildlife
When we vacation in Cape May, NJ, we see dolphins travel south in the morning and return north in late afternoon, I assume having visited feeding grounds, or family, or gone to a ball game. Here in Nantucket, we see
If You Want To Make It As A Consultant
If you want to make it as a consultant: • Develop listening skills, which means you need to speak far less. Counter-intuitively, stop telling people about yourself and start asking others about themselves. • Develop questioning skills. Learn to direct a conversation by