Cause and Effect
Etiology is the study of cause and effect. "Blame" is not part of that search.
Is Anyone Home?
People take some days off for the holidays, but they don't go on sabbatical! If you decide to stop marketing for the month then stop wondering why your sales pipeline is dry during the first quarter of 2020.
Alan Weiss, N.I.C.E.*
I saw a guy on social media today with 23—I counted them—23 initials after his name. Maybe, maybe, if you're at a professional conference you list them, or maybe you hang all those certifications on your office wall to cover the
Convulsed?
The Times headline this morning reported the country "convulsed" over impeachment. I'm in Manhattan at the moment, and I can't find any convulsing. It looks like business as usual. "Eye of the beholder," I guess.
Episode 115: The Ugly Side
Those aspects of humanity from which we should all learn some lessons. Some human habits are just disgusting, and I need to vent about this.
Alan Weiss’s Word of the Week™ – 12/18/19
Today's word: sessile.
Proposals
A business proposal from a consultant to a prospective client is not an exploration or a negotiation. It is a summation of conceptual agreement reached in person and recorded in the proposal. If you don't have that prior agreement with
The Mysterious Case of the Non-Hospitable Hostess
I'm at the St. Regis, one of the high-end hotels in New York City. I went for breakfast, and there were six tables occupied, the hostess showing me to mine. Yet there was only a single waiter on duty, apparently,
Looking Up Every So Often
This was reported in today’s Wall Street Journal by Johan Norberg from The Cato Institute. During this past decade: Extreme poverty fell from 18.2% to 8.6% (source: World Bank) Malaria in Africa declined by 60% and HIV by more than