Wait, What?
We're dining last night in a restaurant next to the venue where we're about to see a ballet, where my wife is a long-time board member. As we're about to leave, my wife spies two of her fellow board members
If You’re Proclaiming Good Health, Why Are You Driving Like A Moron?
I don't know why, but I've started thinking about bumper stickers. It's rare to find a car with just one. They usually come in multiple postings, ranging from politics to health food, from sports teams to mystical affirmations. It seems
How Much Is That?
A commodity is something generally purchased solely on price. It's undifferentiated, and no marketing heft is put behind it except for how inexpensive it is for the purpose intended. However, value is attached to non-commodities, including today: cars, pillows, hair coloring,
Why the Loch Ness Monster Causes Global Warming, You Dumb $#@@&
The main utility of Facebook is that—when you read how little people know about history, or how needy they are to be liked, or how profanity replaces adjectives and nouns because of a lack of class, or you hear of
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 05/08/17
The farther removed an event, the less its impact on most of us. We sympathize and send government help to Fukushima, for example, but Three Mile Island dominated our news and national attention. Volkswagen's unethical actions with emissions was a
Bloviation
I have never listened to a debate on a TV political talk show—or even an interview with a politician—where I have emerged better informed.
Are You Feeling What I Feel?
Be sensitive to the fact that on many occasions, you're trying to influence, cajole, argue with or otherwise obtain something from a person who simply isn't as bright or capable as you are. That person may be a gate agent,
Things I Hate (All Right, Really Dislike)
"Not a problem." Phone calls in public restrooms. Megyn Kelly. (Much ado about nothing.) The smugness of the comics (Jon Stuart, Bill Maher) who attack people who are not present to defend themselves. The fiction that Hillary Clinton lost