China Journal
Starting for China by spending the night in The City. Emirates will send a limo for us in the morning to take us to JFK. My wife and I grew up in Jersey, thought it was hysterical shooting the sun
Happy Birthday to Debbie
It can't be more than 29. Enjoy the great food at La Masseria.
Maybe It’s All That Oil Money?
As reported in today's New York Times: "I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves." --OSMEL SOUSA, the longtime head of the Miss Venezuela pageant on the popularity of plastic surgery in Venezuela. Apparently, education
A Person of Interest
The new TV hit show, Blacklist, is absurdly ridiculous. But James Spader is so good that we record every episode to make sure we don't miss any. I saw him on Broadway in Race, where co-star Kelley Washington, the current
Alan’s Thought For The Day
I read a report about a "remote northern town in Canada." Can anyone create a more redundant sentence?
Another Tough Day At The Office
Entertaining my Laser Growth Cycle Group at The Capital Grill in Providence last night. Constance Dierckx, Urko Wood, moi, Ann Latham, Lisa Nirell, John Martinka, Scott Edinger. We're working at my place today.
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/4/13
November 4, 2013—Issue #215 This week's focus point: The coming stresses on society will be quite different from past and current strains about gender, race, ethnicity, and so forth. They will be about the knowledge chasm. This recent
The Ideal Career
Someone approached me not long ago and said, "I've figure you out. You only do what you love to do and are great at. And you've built a career around it." That didn't come as a surprise to me, but it
The Dead Zone
When companies move or cultures change, it's not the new future that generally worries people, but the journey's uncertainty. I call that distance "the ambiguous zone." I've also found that when small businesses or solo practitioners seek to create a larger