Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/11/13
November 11, 2013—Issue #216 This week’s focus point: Don’t look now, but the stock market is 3,300 points above its current 12-month low, having set another record. Housing, auto, and…
If You’re An Expert….
• You have opinions of value based on your knowledge and experience that are provocative and don’t have to be otherwise justified or substantiated. • You are cited by others…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/29/15
This week’s focus point: I’m sure you’ve heard the apothegm, “The harder I work the luckier I get.” The hardest work for most of us is mental work. Oh, it’s…
Overwhelm
“Overwhelm” is the new designer condition. It’s been transmogrified from a verb into a state of being. “I’m in overwhelm.” It underwhelms me. We all have time in the day…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/14/16
One huge key to high self-esteem—yours and others’—is to use language that speaks to the person and not the issue. Telling your sons and daughters that you’re proud they achieved…
Are You Feeling What I Feel?
Be sensitive to the fact that on many occasions, you’re trying to influence, cajole, argue with or otherwise obtain something from a person who simply isn’t as bright or capable…
In All Due Haste
“The Last Supper” required quite a bit of da Vinci’s time to paint—about three years. The Goldberg Variations demanded a couple of years from Bach. The Pulitzer Prize winner Rick…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 01/07/19
I’ve recently finished facilitating a session for what many people would call a “mastermind group.” We call it an “elite retreat.” What stunned me is that we’ve been meeting…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/26/18
It seems we focus on the macro and the micro. We are keen to study climate change, and the wisdom of recycling, and alternative power sources. We seem also consumed…