Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/12/2024
Saint Valentine lived in the Third Century and has been associated with courtly love. (He is also the patron saint of beekeepers and epilepsy, and is said to have cured…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/26/2024
We were in a hotel in Miami this past week, and the first morning after check in the night prior I was about to shave when I realized there was…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/05/2021
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The Revolutionary War officially ended on September 2, 1883, after over eight years of fighting, with…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/09/18
“Diversity” seems to be in every other sentence these days. I don’t think we can merely intellectualize diversity, we have to live it, not as some special accommodation or event,…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/13/18
Some time ago, a beautiful supermodel was on a morning talk show hawking a cosmetic line. She mentioned “foundation” which I’m thinking is a sort of base covering, and said,…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 9/03/18
We seem to have lost all sense of reason. “Reason,” to me, is about common sense, sanity, and logic. I think it also involves emotions. But “reasonable people” are able…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 9/24/18
A couple of years ago, I tried to organize one of my elite events in Marrakech. A minority of the attendees refused to go, telling me it was “too dangerous.”…
Five Named to Million Dollar Consulting® Mentor Hall of Fame
January 25, 2010 For Immediate Release Five Inducted Into Million Dollar Consultant® Hall of Fame Five outstanding consultants from diverse disciplines have been inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant® Hall…
Strut Your Stuff
Early in my career, a veteran consultant, arrogating wisdom, gave me some really bad advice—”Be humble and low key,” he said, “don’t overwhelm the prospect.” Shortly thereafter, the briefly low…