Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 01/13/2020
This was a week of escape. Carlos Ghosn, an arrogant, profligate businessman who led a life of nearly unrivaled opulence, was spirited out of Japan in a plebian box otherwise used for concert equipment. But his treatment by what is
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 01/06/2020
The sole American highspeed train, the Acela, is capable of 186 MPH, but can only manage about 150 MPH and then only on three sections of track in the total 460 miles from Boston to Washington, DC. That’s because the
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/30/2019
Don Imus died a couple of days ago, aged 79. Imus was the first “shock jock,” before Howard Stern, for whom the adjective “irascible” was apparently created. He was often profane, homophobic, racist, and sexist. He was fired and suspended
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/23/2019
I coach a lot of people who regret that they can't do what they once could do. That might be physical (athletics), or travel (kids have come along), or psychological (we fear things we didn't fear before). I have a different
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/16/2019
The managers of the restaurant where we are the best customers secretly loaded (so others wouldn't see and expect it) a huge gift basket of Italian goodies into the trunk of my car parked out front last night. A non-profit director
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/09/2019
When I was engaged in helping my clients hire people (and when, in a universe very far away, I ran international sales forces), I focused on three traits. The first was enthusiasm, which I don't believe you can create in
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/02/2019
In his book, Factfulness, the late Hans Rosling told the story of an intern who nearly lost her arm when she placed it between closing elevator doors in an Asian country. After the emergency was averted, she explained that in
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/25/2019
We made a donation to attend an appearance by former Vice President Joe Biden in Providence yesterday afternoon. (They cleverly scheduled it well before the Patriots game.) He and I arrived at the same time by coincidence and I was
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
