Alan’s Thought For Today

There was the predicted two inches of snow in the Providence, RI area last night. The start, ending, and amount were precisely forecast by the 3,400 "meteorologists" employed by the media in these parts. (We should look at our state

If you stand-in the rain getting soaked for 30 minutes waiting for a taxi because a limo or an Über is more expensive, you're not exactly someone I'd want as my trusted advisor. The last thing any business person needs

An act of generosity is most impressive, ironically, when it isn't public, when no one's name appears on a building, when you do something for someone in need and don't post it on Facebook, when there's no mention in a

"Derivative" means "imitative of the work of another." It's not quite theft, but nor is it anywhere near original. If you glance at LinkedIn these days, for example, you'll find a slew of "talking heads," people looking into a camera and

I was introduced once at an awards ceremony as "one of the three geniuses in this organization." I asked my introducer what was going on with that phrase after my acceptance. He told me, "Everyone in that audience was thinking,

There was an article in the Times today about an ignition locking device that prevents a car from starting if the driver is inebriated. That sounds like a good idea, right? Well, this article indicated there "could be dangerous conditions"

The Times headline this morning reported the country "convulsed" over impeachment. I'm in Manhattan at the moment, and I can't find any convulsing. It looks like business as usual. "Eye of the beholder," I guess.

Your priorities each day are to fill your business pipeline and convert pipeline potential into actual business. If you're spending your days on blog posts, newsletters, social media, software backups, and surfing, you're probably very busy but not very productive.

People claim there are no perpetual motion machines, and that the law of entropy requires gradual decline into disorder. Well, I have a news break for you: Bureaucracies exist mainly to perpetuate themselves and have become highly adept in so