Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 1/23/12
January 23, 2012—Issue #122 This week’s focus point: I’ve read that Picasso’s mother told him that he would become Pope if he joined the clergy, and a general if he…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 1/30/12
January 30, 2012—Issue #123 This week’s focus point: Be judicious in terms of those to whom you choose to listen and heed. Very few pundits and prognosticators are ever held…
The Little Things That Kill You
Ironically, it’s not the big disasters that undermine most professional services practices. It’s the little things, an accrual of blockage and inefficiency and calcification that creates stalactites along your path.…
Reflections on the Mentor Summit
This was my first Mentor Summit in Europe. (I conduct these every 9 months of so, free, for all members of my Mentor Community.) We had representation from Germany, U.S.,…
London Again V
Concluded the Mentor Summit yesterday, worked on strategy with the Baglioni top management group, and dined last night at the outstanding Scott’s in Mayfair, with Stuart Cross and I. Heading…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/2/12
July 2, 2012—Issue #145 This week’s focus point: As we approach July 4 and the legacy of one of the world’s most dramatic events and enduring governing principles, in all…
The Dictators
Many organizations have leaders who consider themselves the fount of all knowledge and wisdom. Sometimes they founded the place, and believe because they know how to create fluid injection machines…
On Wine and Currency Equivalents
We dined in an exquisite restaurant in Prague tonight, in a lovely square a few blocks from the Mandarin Oriental, called II Maliru, with about 14 diacritical marks around all…
WOLFoundation on Sustainable Change
I serve on this board. This is just to let you know that the essays from the 2011 competition  have now been published as an eBook in collaboration with Cultura21—”a…
Loosing It In Lala Land
(Note: If you don’t eat anything that casts a shadow and have no sense of humor, I’d really advise not reading this.) We used to live on the Peninsula south…