Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/17/13
June 17, 2013—Issue #195 This week's focus point: Dropping weight enables us to rise, to run faster, to breathe easier. In our careers and lives those "weights" are often meetings, routines, habits, colleagues, tasks, and obligations. You can't
Symbolism
At the start of every airline flight there is an announcement about seat belts, smoking, emergency exits, oxygen, et. al. I often look around to find no one paying any attention whatsoever. Some airlines beg for your attention, some international
The Spam Express
If you're excellent at choosing horses, why don't you just bet on them instead of selling tips at the racetrack? Among all the SEO spam from India and inheritance fraud from Nigeria, here is a mailing which I can't seem to
My Intensive Coaching Work
This is one of the wonderful, talented, and bright women I coached in interviewing skills for Miss USA and Miss America contests, Ashley Bickford (these are photos she posted on Facebook today). It is difficult and exhausting work, but someone
In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking
• If you believe that no one will ever be able to find what you post or write on the internet, or say on a phone conversation or in a text, then you're living in a dream world. Act on
Another Day At The Office
Alan's Growth Cycle® teams meet periodically, and here is the Red Robbin team during a hard day's work on strategy at my pool. That's me, Gary Patterson, Jean Oursler, and Dan Weedin, with teammate Noah Fleming manning the camera. Bentley
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/10/13
June 10, 2013—Issue #194 This week's focus point: Home schooling, alternative education, non-traditional education, and other options are dramatically increasing in the US. Meanwhile, the notion of vast campuses--where students are housed, clothed, parked, fed, and occasionally
Is It After 5pm in Australia, So I Can Drink?
I recently wrote a Monday Morning Memo®® on what I believe to be failures in the way we educate our youth, and why schools in the US are failing. I received the following from Australia this morning: "Hi Alan "After much thought
The Dog Star: Exercising
(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) I'm a bachelor for the weekend—my wife and daughter and granddaughters