Strut Your Stuff
Early in my career, a veteran consultant, arrogating wisdom, gave me some really bad advice—"Be humble and low key," he said, "don't overwhelm the prospect." Shortly thereafter, the briefly low key Alan was facing a buyer who said, "You don't
In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking
• Jon Stuart can find parody in Marco Rubio having to drink water, but not Bobby Menendez allegedly hiring prostitutes in the Dominican Republic? How's that for an agenda, Jon? • American Idol has far more superb female than male contestants
Shameless Flambé
I took the current Shameless Promotion group to Capriccio's in Providence last night, where Gino flambéd everything in sight for them. Photo by Michelle Randall
Guest Column: Never Run Out of Altitude, Airspeed, and Ideas at the Same Time
Never Run Out of Altitude, Airspeed, and Ideas at the Same Time By Linda Henman Linda Henman works with leaders who want to tie strategy and succession planning together, and is a master mentor and member of the Million Dollar Consultign® Mentor
The Birds
We never have these blackbirds at our feeders, but the snows drove them over to us. You can tell who the leader is, because he's the one who leads them back from the trees to the food. We believe he's
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 2/11/13
February 11, 2013—Issue #177 This week's focus point: A huge blizzard struck the northeastern U.S. and everyone talks of being without "power." In fact, we were without electricity, access, sometimes water. But when we continually say we're without
Weathering the Storm: 2
When it looks like this outside, and you normally dine out seven days a week with the exception of Christmas: You open the "saved for a blizzard" bottle of Opus, and the lovely Maria, home economist, makes spaghetti with tuna, a
Weathering the Storms
This was one of the worst blizzards in history in the Northeastern US. As communications improve, we become smarter in terms of handling these storms IF we allow ourselves to do so. My observations: • We need to stop talking about