Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/11/2023
I’ve never been troubled by irking people—an audience, meeting attendees, readers. I see my job as forcing people to think. In fact, I’ve been hired by executives to confront and discomfit employees. Here’s the deal: You can receive great agreement about
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/04/2023
Let’s be honest. We’re all “hoarders” to some extent. Most of you have “junk drawers” or garages crammed with things or closets bulging with unidentifiable objects. And they aren’t objets d’art. I’m going to be square with you and differentiate what you
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/27/2023
I like the writer Malcolm Gladwell a lot. He’s written dozens of books—including one outside of his genre, The Bomber Mafia, which was excellent—and my favorite is The Tipping Point. It was in Outliers that he popularized “the 10,000 hours of practice” rule. That research was
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