Verizon March Toward the Horizon: Dumb Ass Stupid Management
Today, my dogs barking like crazy, two young people are banging on my door decked out in Verizon shirts. They tell me they're here to talk about my phone service. They have walked 200 yards on private property, past signs
There Are Stupid Questions
We seem to direct our lives with a variety of humble, good-intentioned, ideal, yet completely nonsensical apothems that tend to constrict our success and options. One of the worst of these is, "There is no such thing as a stupid
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/12/13
August 12, 2013—Issue #203 This week's focus point: It's too easy to become distracted, which is why it happens so often. Steven Wright, the comedian, said, "I'd love to daydream, but I keep getting distracted." Governments, corporations, athletes,
How to Be Immediately Provocative to A Buyer
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Hightailing It Back
Here's what gives you renewed faith (relative to a rude response from Hightail): Hi Alan, Nope. I’m not proud that we made your blog, but after reading the dialog that you had with Lornel, I’m there deservedly. I actually felt a little
Spinning
I heard this morning that the National Football League has passed a rule that a player cannot spin the football on the field in celebration unless he has scored a touchdown! You can't spin it for a first down, a
ASAE: Association for Spam And Excess
About two years ago I decided to join ASAE (American Society of Association Executives). Since I run the Society for Advancement of Consulting, I thought there may be some synergies, ideas, and best practices I could access. Instead, I received a
Focused Marketing: CRC
If you want to strip away all the non-essentials, think about CRC: Credibility: The ability to instantly convince people that you possess the requisite expertise, by what you've already produced in terms of intellectual property, publishing, and word-of-mouth, as well as