Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 04/12/2021
The empirical evidence is overwhelmingly that the economy is opening up in almost every sector, people are spending money to escape “Covid cabin fever,” schools are opening, and we’re going to have a good summer. My daughter has been vaccinated. Restaurants here are “jammed” within very mild restrictions. At church, we’ve begun the “processional” again, walking down the aisle. (Someone accused me of being “selfish” for advocating vaccinations, but I’m going to stick with rationality here.)
I think it’s bizarre to think we’ll be “back to normal,” despite all this progress. And advocating a “new normal” is just a mediocre consultant’s way of saying, “I don’t have a clue about what to tell people.” The diapason we’re witnessing is a “no-normal.” That’s right, you heard it here. It’s a deep-swelling, wide range of the constantly new. (But doesn’t “diapason” say all that in one word?).
We’ve learned lessons (I hope). We’ve endured (what is for us) hardship. Many organizations have had great business during the worst of it (try to get home repairs or landscaping work done without a long wait). We realize (most of us) that we’re responsible for each other’s health, and that means taking care of people who lack our advantages.
I’ve scheduled “live” events through the rest of this year and I’ll schedule international events for next year (the trouble in Europe and Canada with inoculations has caused me to wait). But there is nothing “normal” about what’s happening. There will be continuing volatility, disruption, discontinuity, and turmoil.
Let us rejoice and be glad.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. —Wayne Dyer
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. —Barack Obama
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. —Carl Jung
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Get Back on Track: A Livestream Experience: In this 60-90-minute session, I’m going to convey skills and mindsets that are needed to succeed and help others in a tumultuous and ambiguous world. Late last year I predicted a “Business Renaissance” to occur in March/April/May. And that’s exactly where we are. But it’s insufficient to merely rejoice in the rebirth, it’s important to position ourselves stronger than ever, and change the way we operate and the way we help ourselves, clients, and customers. This is the time of “no normal.” This includes material from my new book, Legacy. https://alanweis
Andy Boothroyd
Hi Alan, are you able to subscribe to your weekly Monday memo so it lands in my inbox as it looks a good regular read! Thanks
Alan Weiss
I’ll take care of it for you, thanks.
David Bristol
Hi Alan, I also would like to subscribe to your weekly Monday memo so it lands in my inbox. Can you please add me to your mailing list? Thanks, David.
Alan Weiss
Sure!