Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 4/10/2023
Someone in my community is Estonian, and he serves in the equivalent of the reserves or National Guard. He told me once that he couldn’t schedule a certain day for our…
Dumb-Ass Stupid Management: Model Trains
Here’s a nominee for the DASM Hall of Infamy. I’m considering buying a property to have a new train layout built. As some of you know, I’ve built a couple…
Are You An Expert Or A Delivery Wagon?
If you walk into a meeting with a buyer oriented toward a “solution” or methodology, you’re going to default to it like a homing pigeon no matter what the buyer says…
Reflections on the Passing of George H.W. Bush
The following is an excerpt from the January edition of my newsletter Balancing Act®. I watched people of all persuasions and positions come together to pay respects to George H.W. Bush. I heard…
Not Without Honor
The first issue launches in October. The fee is $500 for the year, including all back issues for that year. If you subscribe prior to August 1, the fee is…
Episode 11: Overprotection
“The cosseting of youth, and how it’s leaving them vulnerable in the real world.” Transcript: I’m Alan Weiss, welcome to The Uncomfortable Truth. Today…overprotection. We have generational sobriquets you know? We…
Nantucket Journal: August 23, 2008
It’s 9:45 pm and we’re sailing home on the smaller ferry, Nantucket. My car is lost among SUVs with roof storage units and four bikes on the tailgates. Assorted dogs…
Unchanging Minds
I have nearly 1,000 “contacts” with my constituency annually: Newsletters, blog posts on two different blogs (the one you’re reading is my public blog), videos, podcasts, cartoons, social media posts,…
The Facilitation Workshop
Many people attend Alan’s workshops several times because the learn the content the first time, but watch how he does what the does on subsequent visits.