Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/18/2019
In a restaurant in Hanoi last Friday evening, a young man was playing the Tỳ bà, a traditional, stringed instrument. Toward the end of dinner, I thought I recognized a tune. Sure enough, as I began humming it, it was
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/11/2019
I’ve talked about TIAABB: There is always a bigger boat. My point is that we should use our own metrics, not those of others, to determine what fulfills us and determines our contributions. I’m writing this from Dubai, where my observation
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/04/2019
A high school football coach in Long Island has been suspended for running up the score. There is a rule in Nassau County that a coach whose team wins by 42 points or more must submit a letter explaining why
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/28/2019
Some people are individually happy. There's the barista who is in a good mood while colleagues might not be, the DMV person on the phone who is actually cheerful and helpful even though surrounded by surly bureaucrats. Some people are
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/21/2019
I've coined the phrase TIAABB: There Is Always A Bigger Boat. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, and the Sultan of Brunei, the world's allegedly richest man, have long competed for the world's biggest yacht, often adding mere feet to gain
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/14/2019
I try to play Frisbee every day that weather permits with Bentley. Not all my tosses are that great, and he'll occasionally have to retrieve the disc on the bounce or from a bush or even while it's rolling. He
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/07/2019
I've been fortunate to have a variety of generations and overall diversity in my global community. I've found that communicating is generally easy for me, but I have to be aware of differences that are not related to gender, ethnicity,
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/30/2019
I had been driving my Bentley for a year and it was in for its annual physical. When I picked it up, I was told the mechanic had a question for me. I figured I was probably driving the car
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/23/2019
Today's perspective, below, has always fascinated me: Some coasts are set aside for shipwreck. Loren Eisley was an American anthropologist, educator, and philosopher. The quote has always resonated with me. Not all initiatives will be successful. Not all corrective actions will
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/16/2019
I've been emphasizing (and wrote a book about the problem, Threescore and More) that ageism is one of the two remaining biases in the country that have very little opposition (the other being bias against people who are obese). There
