Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/04/19
The origins of the phrase “get a life” go back perhaps 40 years or so. As I interpret the taunt, it suggests that someone is zealously focused on relatively…
First, There Was Light….
We always take private tours. I’m a bit of an elitist, I guess, but I hate groups (whether scuba diving or walking on the Acropolis) and we even took a…
A State of the Union or A State of Mind?
Here in Rhode Island people give you directions by using buildings that no longer exist as landmarks (“Take a left where the Old Stone Bank used to be”). They have…
Syracuse
My daughter attended Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Journalism. Therefore, we invested money in that institution, and I’m always interested in activities there. According to the news this morning, there…
Strategically Thinking….
“We need a strategy” is a common plaint, and usually wrong. What’s actually happening is that the tactics are failing. People often respond to my advice with, “I’m already doing…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/19/2019
I was talking to my daugher here in Nantucket last night about her work as an independent show-runner who also pitches her own shows. She’s quite successful at it, though…
Episode 98: You Must Capitulate
It’s no longer sufficient to merely win, the other person must LOSE!  We’d never get through the day if we kept demanding that everyone else capitulate.
Downton Abbey Crumbles on Screen
My wife and I were great fans of this TV series which we thought was wonderfully acted and directed, realistically taking a family of minor nobility through the eventual decline…
Everyone’s A Coach at Times
We’ve all been coaches, formally or informally, and we’ve all been coached. I don’t see coaching as a “discipline” that requires a certificate or a certain model. I think it’s…
YO!!!
If you spend time in airports, or on the streets of a large city, or any place where large groups of people are in transit, you must have been in…