Opening Act
I drive a couple of miles at 7am down here at the Jersey Shore to get the newspapers at the supermarket. During my leisurely drive along the boardwalk and through…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/14/16
I‘m sitting in a corner suite looking out at the Ginza in Tokyo. It’s 6 am, and people are starting their day. We’ll be leaving soon for the airport and…
Dumb Ass Stupid Management with Honors: Enterprise Rental Cars
Enterprise delivered a Jaguar to me last Friday at the Delano Hotel in Miami to drive through Alligator Alley to Naples, about a 2.5-hour trip. That road has some serious…
Sticks and Stones
I’m sitting in my hotel in San Francisco listening to the ubiquitous happy talk early morning news, today on NBC. The “anchors” report stories about Trump, his advisors, and his…
You Can’t Recork Champagne
Did you see the Atlanta Falcons owner and his wife come down to the sidelines extremely early to celebrate victory when they led the Patriots by 28-9 in the Super…
How A Rodent Provided My IP
A squirrel was looking at me through the window from a tree this morning, about three floors off the ground. It was perfectly safe from most predators in the evergreen,…
I Can’t Tell By Your Face If You’re Happy Or Not
There’s a woman on the CBS morning news in New York City (6-7 am weekdays) who basically reads a teleprompter as her job. She doesn’t look real. He face doesn’t…
If It Hurts When You Do That, Stop Doing It
Small businesses usually don’t fail because of poor products or services (in fact, the owners usually work themselves to exhaustion). They fail because of stupidity. My air conditioning guy, with…
Succinctnacity
Our guide in Athens knew everything about the Acropolis, ancient Greece, modern Greece, the church, political matters, and art. Unfortunately, she told us about all of them when we really…
I Am Not Spartacus
We were at a well-respected theater last night and saw a play that was so bad—derivative, insipid, predictable—with horrible writing, mindless directing and, quite rare for this place, amateur acting.…