What Is Your “Angle of Innovation”?
How innovative are you? Do you have the "right angle"? © Alan Weiss 2013
The Language of Help
Most CEO biographies (and especially autobiographies) aren't very helpful in changing our own behaviors and success rates. That's because they talk about what worked for them under certain conditions, and don't explain how it can work for us under our
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/8/13
July 8, 2013—Issue #198 This week's focus point: Amazon (according to the New York Times) has a larger market share of new and used books than anyone else has or over had. Beyond that, when I needed a special
Facebook Favorites
My two favorite posts this morning: 1. A woman who proudly trumpeted her recent, successful fire walk over hot coals, and a new outlook on life. Who knew sweaty soles could bring such satisfaction? 2. A woman who changed her profile photo
R E S P E C T
Many years ago I was asked by the British Standards Institute to create a more innovative culture at its site in Milton Keynes. (At immigration, I was dressed in jeans and had a two-day beard, as I told the inspector
Tanks In My Streets
I have some strange hobbies in a digital age, and have finished three books already at the pool over my "holiday week," but here is my latest therapy, an Abrams M1A1 with a mine plow attached. This is a 1/35
Freedom and Liberty
Does the irony strike anyone that the US is celebrating its independence, achieved nearly 240 years ago, with an unbroken string of successive, elected governments running the country—and the Egyptian army has just booted out after just one year the
Endorse Me Or I’ll Kill Myself
This crass marketing strategy on Linkedin to encourage "endorsements" is stupid enough, and people requesting, in effect, strangers to support their capabilities in coaching, consulting, psychotherapy, and neurosurgery is simply ludicrous. But even dumber are those who take offense when
Rising to the Surface
No matter how long you can remain underwater, you eventually have to surface in order to breathe. That fact obtains in organizations, as well. The "surface," where you can breathe freely, is at executive level, where decisions are made and