Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/31/25
How’s your ego? “Ego” is usually and colloquially identified as a sense of self-esteem. In psychology it’s that aspect of the mind that referees between the conscious and unconscious and…
Kathy Kingston in Auctioneering Contest
Kathy Kingston is in my coaching community and is probably the best fund-raising auctioneer in the country. Here's a press release she sent out with her next competition: Alan— thought…
Adventures in the Publishing Trade
Since I published my first book in 1988 (The Innovation Formula) the publishing industry has declined in terms of innovation, talent, and risk-taking. Today it’s gasping and wheezing. Herein, some…
Winning Not Whining
The New York Times published letters today in response to an article about the increasing investments in first class amenities by the airlines. One of the letters was mine, in…
Guest Column: How I Got My Book Deal
Dorie Clark is a member of my Private Roster Mentor Program and a graduate of the Million Dollar Consulting College. How I Got My Book Deal, and the Lessons I…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/15/2021
The vaccine follies have begun! I'm impressed that the vaccines have become available so fast, at least in my perception, and that they are apparently very efficacious. However, I…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 5/08/2023
I’m becoming underwhelmed by “overwhelmed.” What on earth does that mean? I guess people use it meaning “overcome” with tasks, responsibilities, guilt, fear—I’ve not yet heard anyone tell me they were overwhelmed…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/27/2023
I like the writer Malcolm Gladwell a lot. He’s written dozens of books—including one outside of his genre, The Bomber Mafia, which was excellent—and my favorite is The Tipping Point. It was in Outliers that…