Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 03/30/2020
My personal trainer told me a week ago he was probably going to have to close because of retail restrictions. I asked what I could do to maintain my strength and stamina until he reopened. He promptly put some weights
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 03/23/2020
When I've been inflicted with a flat tire on my cars, I don't know about you, but I don't stand around blaming the city, the tire manufacturer, the car dealer, or the fates. I get the tire changed one way
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 03/16/2020
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Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 03/09/2020
The Wall Street Journal, for my money the best written newspaper in the world, published a piece over the weekend about the need to keep employees happy, even to the extent of violating their privacy to make sure they're happy!
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 03/02/2020
"Nuance" is defined as "a subtle difference in meaning." We often don't realize the cause, but an artistic performance, or business presentation, or family dinner table discussion can be highly rewarding or disappointing based on the presence or absence of
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/24/2020
I stopped by my favorite hot dog truck this past week. It's been here for at least 40 years and is owned by "Pops," who started with a push cart and who now has a silver trailer towed by a
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/17/2020
An asteroid about three times the size of the Empire State Building shot by the Earth last week, “only” three million miles away. In terms of space, that’s a “near miss.” Oh, yeah, it was travelling 30,000 miles per hour,
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/10/2020
I'm traveling from Boston to San Francisco on United, 12 of us in first class. The guy next to me is having a hard time. The flight is two hours late because of weather, which he blames on United as
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/03/2020
The local Dunkin' Donuts was taken over not long ago, apparently by The Tin Man from Oz, who doesn't have a brain, and according to employees, he barred giving out free dog biscuits because he was "losing his shirt" on
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 01/27/2020
I have this habit of deconstructing success. I think it was prompted when Mercedes-Benz was my client, and I learned about their technique of obtaining competitors’ cars and “reverse engineering” them, to understand how they created their product. I find that
