Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 5/21/12
May 21, 2012—Issue #139 This week’s focus point: Stop worrying about correcting your flaws, which is what most self-help books pontificate about. We grow by building on strengths. Certainly, correct…
California
We’ve moved from bunk beds where I hit my head on the ceiling to one of the great hotels in the country, the Peninsula in Beverly Hills, and a garden…
You Get What You Pay For
I actually had a guy tell me the other day that he wasn’t looking for free coaching from me, he just wanted my advice! My wife and I give a…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/15/12
October 15, 2012—Issue #160 This week’s focus point: We bring back mementos from our vacations that remind us of great times and explorations. Sometimes we realize later that they are…
In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking (About Brent Musberger and Other Stuff)
• Sportscaster Brent Musberger remarked during a boring rout of a bowl game that the winning quarterback’s girlfriend, in the stands, is gorgeous (which she is). Some female professor is…
What You Can Learn From My Wife, The Consultant
A new cupcake shop opened on Main Street in East Greenwich. This is the most affluent city in the state, sometimes called a “country club of a town,” and these…
In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking
• Why would hotel management think that tying the hair dryer cord or robe belt into a Gordian knot every day might be helpful to a guest? • Where are all…
Here’s Why You’re in the Top 1%
Forget about Mensa, which claims its membership has the top 2% in IQ (I’m a life member and I can assure you that claim is as real as the Loch…
Alan’s Best and Worst of 2013
BEST • The response of the community and the nation to the Boston Marathon bombing. • Pope Francis’s very sincere behavior eschewing panoply in favor of humility, and his ability…
Not So Sirius Radio: DASM
The satellite radio stopped abruptly in our new SUV. I took the time to call Sirius and, after the moronic automated voices trying to get rid of me, I reached…