In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking
• The position of vice president of the US is notorious for being almost irrelevant short of the death of a President, yet the media focus on it as if…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/13/12
August 13, 2012—Issue #151 This week’s focus point: I’m sitting in a beach house on Nantucket Island at 7:30 on a stormy Sunday morning, watching angry waves pound a stoic…
Nantucket 2012—10 Wildlife
When we vacation in Cape May, NJ, we see dolphins travel south in the morning and return north in late afternoon, I assume having visited feeding grounds, or family, or…
Nantucket 2012—12
We’re headed home today after two glorious weeks. It’s a drizzly morning, the sky grey, the water slate. The horizon is discernible, I’m guessing about three miles away (it always…
The (Very) Best Man
Last night we had house seats courtesy of buddy Kim Wilkerson to “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man.” What a wonderful recovery from the drudging “Once” the night prior. Although the…
Guest Column: If They Can Sell Pet Rocks Why Can’t You Sell Your Business For What It’s Worth?
John Martinka is a graduate of the Million Dollar Consulting® College and an expert in small business growth, valuation, and exit strategies. If they can sell pet rocks why can’t you…
To Monte Carlo
The car picked us up at 3:30 and at 4:40 we were in Logan Airport, with our bags being checked through to Nice via London. (A far cry from my…
On Compassion
Here’s one definition of compassion: sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others: the victims should be treated with compassion. I wrote a Monday Morning Memo® recently…
It’s A Small World After All
Our server in a restaurant housed in a 250-year-old plantation in St. Thomas, The Old Stone House, reveals, while escorting us through the kitchen, that she also works at 22…
Radio Waves
What you see below is an Emerson 8-transistor radio from about 1965. We unearthed it as we sorted through a mountain of stuff that had to be moved as our…