• Anything you write or speak about using pandemic lessons is already dated. But for the record….
• Strong organizations become stronger in crisis, weak ones disappear.
• It’s astounding that most businesses are hiring yet the people applying are not exactly the brightest bulbs.
• I don’t care if people wear masks or not, and we shouldn’t have to ask people to “respect” others’ choices.
• It seems we’re experiencing a permanent decline in shaking hands, hugs, “air kisses,” and so on.
• I have the two primary shots plus three boosters, one directed at omicron. I think these help reduce the likelihood of something. It’s called “death.”
• People who traditionally speak lowly, or rapidly, or with a profound accent, are that much harder to understand speaking through a mask, but they seem to resent it when asked to repeat something.
• The ability of Amazon to send a purchase to you the next day—or, sometimes, even the same day—is irresistible and the future for online retailers.
• Telehealth, as a process, has huge potential for most professional services.
• Enough said, now it’s time to move on.

Regrets

Sinatra sang in his Anthem “My Way” (written by Paul Anka), “Regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention….”

I was talking to my chum Dan Pink recently in a discussion for my podcast, Alan Weiss’s The Uncomfortable Truth®, about his newest book, Regrets. I find Dan to be terribly bright and inquisitive. He tends to write about that which he wants to learn about himself (To Sell Is Human, Drive, and so on).

We talked about the different kinds of regrets people have and how to deal with them without absorbing and suffering under guilt. Briefly, we have to make better and correct what we can, apologize when appropriate, and move on. We need to learn from the regret. My example was pulling a blue fin tuna out of the water 20 years ago when reluctantly going deep sea fishing with a client. I regretted it too late, but to this day I’ve been a staunch supporter of animal rights and I’ve never hunted or fished. Those are my decisions, I don’t expect they would necessarily be yours, but it’s what I choose to live by after that moral regret.

There really is no sense regretting what we feel we should have said to people which we can’t correct any more. No sense regretting foolish actions or omissions. If we’ve improved our behavior as a result of them, then we’ve made legitimate progress.

I’m a Sinatra afficionado. I have most of his recordings, and I consider him to be the finest singer of the American Song Book ever. But he made foolish choices is his love affairs, in his arrogant expectations, and in the whole “rat pack” zeitgeist. I doubt his regrets were “too few to mention.”

Read Dan’s book. He has learned a great deal and he’s shared it with his readers. And watch for my chat with him on Alan Weiss’s The Uncomfortable Truth® on my blog (on alanweiss.com).

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