Be Careful About Listening Too Well
Beware the "experts" who have no consequences for being wrong (unlike consultants, who would be thrown out and/or never invited back). I was told Apple's ascent couldn't last. Tom Brady would never win a third Super Bowl. Trump would never get
Episode 143: Overreactions
The doom loop of polarization and overreactions, and why I can't win unless you lose. The problem with overreactions is that they cause a further escalation of overreactions.
Alan Weiss’s Word of the Week™ – 07/08/20
Today's word: umber.
I’ll Be Outside, Throw Me Some Food
A restaurant we've patronized since it first opened on a weekly basis, including take-out during the crisis, apparently was taking people on a first-come basis once in a new "phase" here. However, a masked hostess, standing six feet away, who
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/06/2020
Whether you wear a mask or not is not something I'm getting into here, though I find that my bank, which once forbade hats and sunglasses, now demanding masks on all customers is drop-deal comical in its irony. But the
The Opportunities Are Coming!
A great many successful enterprises were formed during depressions, recessions, pandemics, and natural calamities. That's largely because the people behind them didn't look for excuses to explain why something couldn't be done. The looked for the reasons why it could
I’m Not Just Right, You’re Wrong!
First let me state that, on Facebook, I admit to the positive practice of nice photos of pets and family outings and staying in touch with friends, fair enough and quite healthy. But has anyone in the history of Facebook ever
“We hold these truths to be self-evident….”
We've conceptualized it. Now, 244 years later, it's about time we perfect the implementation. IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to
Step to the Side
Bob Mager, the training guru, wrote a book once with a subtitle something like, You Really Oughta Wanna. In other words, you have to have the desire to change if the change is going to have a chance of improving your