How to Set Sail
Stop slinking around hoping your buyer will re-engage for next year. Walk up to the buyer and say, "Things are going great, I know you're ecstatic about the results, why don't we plan the next phase now (or extension of
A Minute With Alan™ — Poor Help
August 9th, 2022 That’s what is really killing businesses.
What’s Your Story?
There is an old, probably apocryphal story about a British visitor to the Middle East long ago who sees a long, serpentine line leading to a palace. He asks his guide why people are so patiently waiting. "It's Saturday morning," replies
A Minute With Alan™ — Avoiding TV News
August 8th, 2022 You ought to try this for a week.
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/08/2022
Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) is an impulse-control disorder. You can recognize it by sudden episodes of unwarranted anger. People with IED experience “explosions” of anger with minor issues or with no provocation at all. “Normal” anger is healthy. We all become angry when
Early
We arrived at the ferry (to Nantucket) hours early, and instead of killing time we waited for a cargo ferry as a "standby." We were the last car accepted on board, and we found the accommodations terrific and far less
What Box?
"Thinking outside the box" is a dismissive phrase, because no one then bothers to tell you HOW to do that (because they can't themselves, they can just utter the banality). Besides, most of us can improve significantly by thinking better
Wait, What Does This Button Do?
Once upon a time you read an instruction book and mastered a new piece of equipment, car, computer, whatever. Today, you have to put two days aside to try to wade through them since the lawyers' incessant warnings alone take
A Minute With Alan™ — Watches
August 5th, 2022 Let’s not have cognitive dissonance here.
Sleeping On It
If you have an issue you're trying to work out, start thinking about it when you go to sleep. I've often awakened with new ideas, insights, resolutions, and so on. My analogy is that our brains aren't concerned with scores