Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/20/2023
(A most happy Thanksgiving from Maria, me, and our family to you and yours. We all have a great deal to be thankful about, take a minute to consider that before you reach for the turkey!) The US economy saw a
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/13/2023
When I was just beginning my term as president of Ballet RI we were facing a survival crisis. We had no money and a pile of debts (which was why I, a non-board member at the time, was asked to
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/6/2023
I’ve appeared as a guest lecturer in a dozen or more universities, including Harvard, MIT, BU, Rutgers, and so on. I have been an adjunct professor at the University of Rhode Island. This has occurred over 20 years, and I’ve
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/30/2023
I don't usually do this, but I'm repeating here my blog post (Contrarian Consulting, on my site) from the weekend. I've adjusted it somewhat, and I think you may find it poignant. When I was very young, a man would come
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/23/2023
A priority is something that is determined to be more important than other issues or things. Hence the statement: “If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority." But in these times of volatility and speed, can you really set
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/16/2023
Generational cohorts tend to think that they’re the best ever, and/or that they’ve inherited a royal mess from their forebears, and/or that they’re somehow unique. Prior generations, as they age, tend to skew to the right and talk more of the
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/09/2023
Good morning, and Happy Columbus Day! Or, as Brown University insists, Happy Indigenous Peoples Day. (They also call a Christmas Tree a Holiday Tree, of course!) There will be a Columbus Day Parade today in Providence in the Italian section of
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/02/2023
I’m an optimistic guy. I was pretty confident that there would be an agreement to fund the government without a shutdown. It was simply pragmatic politics: Who wants to be blamed for millions of workers not getting paid while Congress
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 9/25/2023
We tend to record prized learning at key junctures: birthdays, anniversaries, births, and so forth. But on a recent long flight, I had finished my writing and reading, and the entertainment offerings weren’t very entertaining. So I began to think
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 9/18/2023
Well, there has been a lot of talk about “age” recently, right? (And I wrote the book, Threescore and More which discusses the need to preserve and apply the wisdom and maturity of people whom we just might need the most in