Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 01/01/2024
One of the great ironies of history is that attacking successful people does not create better conditions for unsuccessful people. The superficial act merely creates prejudice, bigotry, enmity, and an…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/08/2021
I’m signing up for the Covid vaccine as instructed. Walgreens told me online that my existence could not be verified. WELL!! I feel an existential crisis coming on. I…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/16/18
I use the terms “poverty mentality” and “scarcity mentality” interchangeably, both being the opposite of an abundance mentality. A lot of people think I mean spending money as the metric…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 03/29/2021
A paradox is an absurd or self-contradictory statement. It’s not necessarily false. “Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me.” (A lot of you can say…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 05/10/2021
I read in the Boston Globe that about a quarter of all Boston restaurants closed during the past year. My reaction, both there and elsewhere, was to think…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 04/20/2020
When we were first married we lived in an apartment and both worked. We had a couple of cats over that time, Irwin and Sydney, which were perfect pets.…
Fat Chance at Fat Bagels
There is an upscale tavern on Main Street here called Fat Bellys. They serve some nice single malt scotch, good burgers, and even have salads. They do a healthy lunch…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 9/5/16
We celebrate Labor Day in the U.S. today, also celebrated in Canada, and widely celebrated in other countries as International Workers’ Day on May 1. It has been a statutory…
The Consulting Bible: An Excerpt
Here is the opening of my new book, available in about a month from John Wiley & Sons, The Consulting Bible. It will be available for order on my site…