Ambushed by Internet
As I’ve grown older I’ve decided to spend less time with people or things that annoy me, and more time with those that provide joy. I’ve also found it…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/11/2021
I was introduced long ago as “the funniest speaker you’re ever going to hear,” and I knew I was dead. DOA. It was as if I had been dropped…
Episode 1: Control
How to maximize control of your life and not surrender your future. Transcript: Hello again, this is Alan Weiss and today I’m talking about control. In another podcast I mentioned the fact…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 01/14/19
In the footsteps of Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, and Billy Crystal, no one is willing today to accept the job of emceeing the Oscars. What was once a huge…
I’ll Get to the Conference Once We Refuel the Jet
We focus on grand causes and demand action, but we are hypocrites because we do nothing in areas where we could. The analogy would be that we’re not merely lazy…
Sarah Palin Lessons
Note: For years I’ve been the most widely read columnist in ManagementConsultingNews.com. When I turned in this column, from the high seas no less, the editor told me that he…
Guest Column: A Risk Management Nightmare: What You Should Learn from Penn State
A Risk Management Nightmare: What You Should Learn from Penn State By Dan Weedin The nightmare in Happy Valley last week involving the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State cost…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 01/18/2021
I’m tired of talking about politics, let me talk about health. It’s wonderful that the vaccines are here, apparently highly efficacious, and are being distributed nationally (and internationally). Of…