Instant Expertise (Just Add Confidence)
Don't read others' ideas to try to generate your own expertise and thought leadership. Create your own, faster than instant coffee: One minute expertise creation: 1. Identify the area of expertise (10 seconds) 2. Create three key, provocative points (20 seconds) 3. Make two
Spiderweb
Do you sometimes feel as if you're not moving much, despite your best efforts? You're following advice, have plenty of energy, seemingly advancing—but you're never far from the same place? You're caught in the spiderweb of life. You have relationships—personal, professional,
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 1/4/16
We can see that some things are, empirically, enduring: Mozart's symphonies, Michaelangelo's art, Armstrong's jazz, Dickens's novels, Sinatra's songs, Anne Frank's diary, air travel, cell phones. Who knows about rap, Lady Gaga, reality television, man buns, solar power, or self-driving
Increasing Fees, Decreasing Labor
Technology companies, and Apple in particular, are increasingly providing bare bones instructions with their products. Generally, they don't say much more than "Welcome to your new MacBook," you choose a language, and that's that. This is true for their entire
2015 Enigmas
Amy Schumer is bold, off-color, risk-taking—and not very funny. After hearing so much about her, I watched her HBO special (directed by Chris Rock, no less, but how do you "direct" a standup comedy routine?). I laughed three times over
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/28/15
In the U.S., we've had a record year for high school graduation rates, well over 80 percent. There are many in the education profession concerned that these students are still not adequately prepared to enter college. I have a different
The Dog Star: Assertiveness
(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 has quite a few ways of asserting himself and expressing