Coffee, Coffee, Coffee
Almost all the people who tell me that they "haven't had their morning coffee yet" or "need their coffee before we can start" are no better in their performance, or thinking, or contributions after they've drunk it.
Over Here!
"When you are ready the teacher will appear" is attributed both to Buddha and the theosophic movement. It's a nice thought, and has also been used in martial arts training, My feeling is that it never hurts to put up a
Episode 98: You Must Capitulate
It's no longer sufficient to merely win, the other person must LOSE! We'd never get through the day if we kept demanding that everyone else capitulate.
Alan Weiss’s Word of the Week™ – 08/21/19
Today's word: concatenation.
Going to the Source
Always go to the source, not an intermediary. If you want a business decision, go to the buyer, not a subordinate or an assistant. If you want to learn something, find the original source, not secondary ones which quote others.
When It Rains on the Meteorologist Who Predicted Sunshine
If politicians, sports analysts, financial experts, and similar people were evaluated regularly, as employees everywhere are, in terms of performance expectations and projections agains actual results and accuracy, we'd start to see what turnover really looks like. One year a
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/19/2019
I was talking to my daugher here in Nantucket last night about her work as an independent show-runner who also pitches her own shows. She's quite successful at it, though I get tired just listening to how hard she works. At
As Wile E. Coyote Said….
If you have to start every chapter of your book with someone else's quote, and cite others repeatedly throughout the book as if trying to justify your positions, why wouldn't readers just go to the original sources rather than read
Unlink
A woman on LinkedIn actually posted that she keeps a sign in her office (she's a sales manager of some kind) that there's only a two percent chance of making a sale on the first or second call, but there's
