A Minute with Alan® — Football Practice
June 13th, 2024 That was my life as a football player.
The Million Dollar Solo Practice
What my communities help develop, from The Daily Stat of the Harvard Business Review, courtesy of Cliff Eslinger: May 07, 2014 Yes, You Can Have a Million-Dollar Business with…
There Are Stupid Questions
We seem to direct our lives with a variety of humble, good-intentioned, ideal, yet completely nonsensical apothems that tend to constrict our success and options. One of the worst of…
Questions I’ve Never Been Asked
I’ve always been amazed, through thousands of interviews, by questions I was never asked. No one has asked me if I ever blew an assignment, or was deeply worried during a project,…
Stiletto Questions
I’ve often spoken of the “martial arts” of language, which means taking the other person’s momentum and turning it back at them. For example, when you’re asked, “What is your…
Simple Questions
Are you trying to help people or trying to make a sale? Are you offering value or just trying to make money? Those aren’t hard questions, but they separate the…
Stupid Questions
There are stupid questions, and I will now answer them: • Q: Hotel front desk clerk, when the doorman takes my bags to the desk and says, “This is Dr.…
World Class Dumb Responses and Questions
ME: What kind of cheese do you put on the cheeseburger? Waitress: Melted, sir. Worker: Your father was hurt on the job this morning! My Mother: Where is he hurt?!…