The Nantucket Horror
This horrid thing, the Nantucket Honey Bucket light brown satchel, is $1,500, that would better be spent on 100 orders of fries, for example.
Nantucket Notes
Notes from Nantucket: There are fewer rabbits this year. There used be dozens scampering around the lawn all day, now I only see one or two. There is an osprey that has taken up residence, often sitting 30 feet up
The Golden Rule
There is no silver and no bronze when you're in the buyer's office. You get the business or you don't. A good try doesn't pay the mortgage and no one ever remembers who finished second and third. "I made it
Sacrifice
I'm watching two once-in-a-lifetime events last night, Simone Biles win by two points, which is more than all the combined margins of victory since 1980 in the gymnastics all-around; and Michael Phelps, at 31, become the greatest swimming champion of
All Aboard! (Dumb Ass Stupid Management)
The stereotypical plaint is that government doesn't treat small business well. While that's occasionally true, the larger problem is that small business owners often don't know their gluteus maximus from their synovial hinge joint. Recently, I wrote to four builders of
Suffering
Do you want to suffer through the relatively brief hard work it takes to be excellent, or would you rather endure the long-term suffering of being mediocre?
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/8/16
There is a "rebound effect" in growth. I was (and still am) a pinball machine buff, loving the old machines that would bounce the balls on flippers and electronic gizmos. The ball would often stay in play solely on the
The Grinder
In the early 1950s, a very old man would walk to the neighborhood ringing a large bell. He carried a heavy grindstone on his back. He'd set it down on a corner and women would come down (or send children