Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 4/14/25
I’ve done a great deal of consulting involving “empowering” workforces (today often called “agency”). I define “empowerment” as having control over the decisions that influence the outcome of your work. I devised a “playing field” metaphor, that showed the boundaries
Please Change Your Password, Avoiding Using Your Prior 58
Have you noticed how much more work and time and expenditure is required because there are so many dishonest people? Perhaps some of you grew up in areas where no one even locked their doors? More likely than not, people are
Stupid Campaigns
Here's a lesson for both political parties (I'm an independent): Democrats: No one is ending or adversely affecting social security or Medicare. The attempt to remove corruption and waste in any government operation is laudable. But to keep harping on social
Here’s How to Stop Undercharging and Over-Delivering
Here's why we tend to undercharge and over-deliver: Low self-esteem (I’m not worth it) Allow the client to determine your intervention “Undocumented promises” to subordinates while delivering “Failure work” from the client you decide to “fix” for the client Insufficient
Use Your Own Metrics
It's easy to predict doom and gloom. That's what the modern media do, essentially, as does every disaffected and unhappy person on social media. It's not so easy to find opportunity, to stay positive, and to thrive rather than whine. "To