Survival or “Thrival”?
If you allow yourself to deal with low-level people in organizations, you will be considered their peer and executives will not deal with you any more than they want to deal with them. If you seek to work with Human
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/13/2020
I've noticed that once we're made aware of something, our attention is disproportionately drawn to it. People who never heard of "cage fighting" but accidentally find it while surfing TV channels become addicts and watch it regularly. I was told
There. Where?
Sometimes there's just no "there" there. You hear someone speak on stage and the next day (or the next hour) can't remember a single useful idea. You read a book and can't tell the plot or the advice to someone
Meeting Buyers
You can use remote means more and more to deliver, especially to serve as a trusted advisor, which is the best way do to that in any case. But you can't create relationships very well remotely, and you still need
The Dog Star: Traffic Patterns
(The Dog Star is a symbol of power, will, and steadfastness of purpose, and exemplifies the One who has succeeded in bridging the lower and higher consciousness. —Astrological Definition) Bentley positions himself in the hallways and at the house's "intersections" so
Be Careful About Listening Too Well
Beware the "experts" who have no consequences for being wrong (unlike consultants, who would be thrown out and/or never invited back). I was told Apple's ascent couldn't last. Tom Brady would never win a third Super Bowl. Trump would never get
Episode 143: Overreactions
The doom loop of polarization and overreactions, and why I can't win unless you lose. The problem with overreactions is that they cause a further escalation of overreactions.
Alan Weiss’s Word of the Week™ – 07/08/20
Today's word: umber.
I’ll Be Outside, Throw Me Some Food
A restaurant we've patronized since it first opened on a weekly basis, including take-out during the crisis, apparently was taking people on a first-come basis once in a new "phase" here. However, a masked hostess, standing six feet away, who