Alan’s Thought For Today

Disruption is not something to be suffered, or prepared for, or feared, or run from. It's something to create in your market. Your attitude should be offensive, not defensive. Are you telling this to your clients or helping them build bomb shelters?

Some brands can successfully move upscale and downscale. Mercedes has done it. Über has done it. Airbnb has done it. But I will tell you this: Once you are seen as a peer of the HR department, you will never be

Numbers of followers, links, friends do not matter in terms of business potential. What matters is the quality of those people, meaning are they your ideal buyers? Reaching three people who are ideal buyers for your services is far superior to

Most platitudes (and that might mean half the advice posted on Linkedin) are inaccurate for most people. People are individuals, yet we insist on treating them as categories and as the contents of some drawer somewhere, in which we dump

Jim Taricani, a highly regarded television reporter here in Rhode Island, has passed away after decades of health issues. He investigated fairly and unceasingly the corruption and incompetence particularly in Rhode Island government. (I calculated once that the imprisonment rate

Declare your independence today from guilt, fear, doubt, and self-limiting beliefs. Revolutionize your thinking.

It's fine to put your own oxygen mask on first before attempting to help others. It's not at all fine to put your own oxygen mask on first and watch others suffer. The first is healthy selfishness, the second is pure malice.

If you want to present a new idea—new IP—don't begin by justifying it, by citing other authorities, or other works, or your credentials. Start with the excitement of what the idea will do for the other person. In other words, act

There are two sports in which I've never wanted to participate: sumo wrestling and golf. In a pinch, with a gun to my head, I'd go for the former.