Alan Weiss’s Word of the Week™ – 11/20/19
Today's word: epigone.
Syracuse
My daughter attended Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Journalism. Therefore, we invested money in that institution, and I’m always interested in activities there. According to the news this morning, there has been a spate of bias crimes and hate speech, including
Lip Service
Here's some heresy: At executive level in larger companies buyers are not trolling web sites to choose advisors. (They may assign their assistants to find venders.) They choose advisors based on peer-to-peer referral, no different from you asking someone you
The World Will End Tomorrow. And Now, the Weather.
This was the news order on Good Morning America on Monday: A mass shooting at a California backyard leaving four dead and four wounded. And now, Ariana Grande's sinus infection. I am not making that up. This is the trivialization of
Time Well Spent
I just flew for 20 hours in the air, along with a three-hour layover, to get home from halfway around the world. It seems like an arduous journey to some. On the other hand, I could have been commuting to
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/18/2019
In a restaurant in Hanoi last Friday evening, a young man was playing the Tỳ bà, a traditional, stringed instrument. Toward the end of dinner, I thought I recognized a tune. Sure enough, as I began humming it, it was
In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking
Complaints about too many tourists in a location uttered by people who are, themselves, tourists, is just about the height of a lack of self-awareness. Every single person who’s ever offered me unsolicited critique about my cars, clothes, jewelry,
Honk! Honk!
New Zealand man brings emotional support clown to layoff meeting David Matthews New York Daily News | Sep 15, 2019 | 4:15 PM A New Zealand man, brought a clown to meeting where he lost his job. (Valerie Loiseleux/Getty Images/iStockphoto) A New Zealand man
Creating Community
There is tremendous value in creating a "community" among your buyers where they can interact—virtually or in real time—with colleagues whom they would otherwise never meet, except through your auspices. Those communities (not "tribes") will impute even greater value to
