What If?
Friends, what if I told you that the future of the automobile in our car-culture country is with the internal combustion engine? What if I told you that electric cars…
Worldview
If you had left your money in the stock market or invested at the time of the great recession four or five years ago, it would be worth more than…
Dead Reckoning
What if you stopped consulting? Or stopped coaching? Or training? What if you simply expressed your expertise? I believe that writing, speaking, facilitating, training, consulting, coaching, ad nauseam, are merely…
In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking
• American Idol is an example of a once-dominating franchise that ate itself to death through self-indulgence. • The co-author of my first book in 1988 told me that extreme…
Firenze
This is the birthplace of the Renaissance, and after driving through frightening traffic (I told the concierge to simply have Hertz come here and take the car away), we arrived…
You Can’t Have It, Either
When I was in fourth grade, we were informed one afternoon at gym period that the girls’ gym teacher was ill, so only the boys would be going. The girls…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/10/13
June 10, 2013—Issue #194 This week’s focus point: Home schooling, alternative education, non-traditional education, and other options are dramatically increasing in the US. Meanwhile, the notion of vast campuses–where students…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/22/13
July 22, 2013—Issue #200 This week’s focus point: The very first quote in the original Monday Morning Memo® was George Bernard Shaw’s “We don’t stop playing games because we grow…
Rehab Me
The mayor of San Diego, after long denying sexual harassment claims, has now apparently gone into “two weeks of intensive therapy” after overwhelming evidence has been brought against him by…
In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking
• The saddest people I see when I travel are those begging gate agents and hotel clerks for upgrades. • The people with metal detectors on the beach early in…