Best Practices in Consulting Workshop
This 1.5-day intensive, interactive workshop is for both new and veteran consultants. Unlike all of Alan's previous developmental offerings, this session will not focus at all on marketing, sales, or…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/02/2019
We celebrate Labor Day in the U.S. today, also celebrated in Canada, and widely celebrated in other countries as International Workers’ Day on May 1. It has been a…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/16/2019
I’ve been emphasizing (and wrote a book about the problem, Threescore and More) that ageism is one of the two remaining biases in the country that have very little…
Weak Link
I’ve been on Linkedin for a couple of months, I guess, as a test after stirring up the “social networking” cult which seems to believe that constant contact on the…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/30/17
Some people default to asking for help instead of thinking things through. When you do the latter, you learn. When you do the former repeatedly, you’re co-dependent, especially when you’re…
Podcasting
I have a weekly podcast, The Uncomfortable Truth®, and I’m also interviewed by podcasters weekly. Here are my guidelines for podcasts that are engaging to your listeners (I’m going to…
Excuse Me, Where’s That Chicken From?
There’s pragmatism, and then there’s taste. When we use FedEx or Google as a verb (FedEx the check) we do so because the Google search mechanism and the FedEx overnight…
“College Bound” Could Mean “All Tied Up”
Not everyone needs to go to college to be successful or happy. When I was in school about a third of the students were no better educated, no more interesting,…
Symbolism
At the start of every airline flight there is an announcement about seat belts, smoking, emergency exits, oxygen, et. al. I often look around to find no one paying any…