Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 05/20/2019
"Scared Straight" was a famous 1978 documentary in which a group of "juvenile delinquents" (au courant at the time) met with prison inmates to be scared into leading better lives through the threat of what might await them in prison.
Game of Thrones As A Symbol of Incompetence
I would just like to observe that HBO, the writers, actors, and all creative talent associated with Game of Thrones should be sued for malpractice. There is a perverse pleasure in watching a train wreck, but none at all in
Staying to the Right?
We drove home from New Jersey to Rhode Island, a tad less than three hours, and with virtually no exception—cars, buses, 18-wheelers, motorcycles, et. al.—no one was driving at or under the speed limit. The traffic speed was reciprocal, more
Roots Are Not All They’re Cracked Up to Be
I'm sitting in Hoboken, NJ at the W Hotel, here for our high school class reunion being held a few blocks away. I'm staring at the New York skyline, where I usually stay, looking toward New Jersey. The Jersey side
Everywhere But One
A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house. The Gospel of Mark, chapter 6, verse 4. I try to keep this in mind!
Scoot
I'm in Washington, DC and I'm observing the now-ubiquitous, motorized scooters that are all over town. The software is impressive: You use Über or Lyft or someone else, you see where the scooters are randomly on the streets and how
Episode 84: Crashing Standards
Whereby we lower standards in a berserk limbo competition for who can go lowest. These days, it seems people would rather set the bar lower than reach a certain standard.
Alan Weiss’s Word of the Week™ – 05/15/19
Today's word: coruscate.
A Case for Early
I've always tried to get what I need to get done early in the day, and avoid the late afternoon. I've seen clients where everyone wants to see the boss before lunch because the boss allots more time and is