Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/22/11
August 22, 2011—Issue #101 This week’s focus point: Increasing revenue is a questionable goal, unless it's accompanied by reducing costs of acquisition and reduced labor intensity. The ideal solution is to attract buyers to you through brand recognition, word-of-mouth, strong intellectual
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/15/11
August 15, 2011—Issue #100 This week’s focus point: Wars, wild financial market swings, global warming, disease, totalitarian governments, budget cutbacks, rioting, health care reform, strikes, overindulged athletes, brainless entertainment shows, airport security humiliation, traffic congestion, pollution˜there's enough to be concerned about
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/08/11
August 8, 2011—Issue #99 This week’s focus point: In the US as the elections in 2012 approach (and elsewhere as elections approach), voters will suddenly receive a "newsletter" from their Representative or Senator apprising them of all that's been
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/01/11
August 1, 2011—Issue #98 This week’s focus point: As this appears, the U.S. faces defaulting on its debts and a downgrading of its credit unless legislators and the President can act collaboratively in the next 24 hours.
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/25/11
July 25, 2011—Issue #97 This week’s focus point: We need "white space" (the term is from text that's easier to read because of surrounding, empty space) in our lives, breathing room to reflect, to mourn, to rejoice,
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/18/11
July 18, 2011—Issue #96 This week’s focus point: One of the worst human tendencies is to overreact. Too many laws, rules, and regulations are made in overreaction to singular or unlikely transgression. I fall down laughing when I
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/11/11
July 11, 2011—Issue #95 This week’s focus point: The scandal in the UK about cell phone hacking by a major newspaper is a sign of corrupt leadership, but not the downfall of civilization. The Borgias and the de
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/04/11
July 4, 2011—Issue #94 This week’s focus point: Stay the course. The market has just had a remarkable week in the U.S. It often fluctuates daily by the hundreds or points these days, because we're in continually
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 06/27/11
June 27, 2011—Issue #93 This week’s focus point: "Retirement" has no real meaning any more. Most productive people, young and old, continually seek out new ways to express their talents and rejoice in life. To foresee an arbitrary age
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 06/20/11
June 20, 2011—Issue #92 This week’s focus point: Billy Joel recorded a great song called, "Keeping the Faith," about rock and roll. There are traits and accomplishments about ourselves that we too readily forget. Almost all of us