Is Your Eye on the Ball?
I feel obligated to state this is not a partisan political post. I'm making an observation as a consultant. I've always told my clients that their assets include potentially 100% of their people's talents and energies while on the job. There
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Bureaucracy is the triumph of means over ends. It is not a natural life form, we create it. I've seen huge, non-bureaucratic organizations, and one-person practices which are highly bureaucratic. It's a choice, and it's based on confidence in judgment,
Episode 114: Vietnam
Being a description of a place I once tried to avoid and have no need to return to. We tend to lose proportion without experiencing other ways of life.
Alan Weiss’s Word of the Week™ – 12/11/19
Today's word: premonitory.
Priority Time
Your priorities each day are to fill your business pipeline and convert pipeline potential into actual business. If you're spending your days on blog posts, newsletters, social media, software backups, and surfing, you're probably very busy but not very productive.
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People claim there are no perpetual motion machines, and that the law of entropy requires gradual decline into disorder. Well, I have a news break for you: Bureaucracies exist mainly to perpetuate themselves and have become highly adept in so
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/09/2019
When I was engaged in helping my clients hire people (and when, in a universe very far away, I ran international sales forces), I focused on three traits. The first was enthusiasm, which I don't believe you can create in
Strategically Thinking….
"We need a strategy" is a common plaint, and usually wrong. What's actually happening is that the tactics are failing. People often respond to my advice with, "I'm already doing that!" I reply, "Yes, but you're not doing it well
Pining
The Governor of Rhode Island, Gina Raimondo, was quite popular when first elected, and now at the conclusion of her second and final term is rated the "least most popular governor in the US." Recently, she changed the habit of