Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 04/25/2022
We all know that repeatedly pushing an elevator button does nothing to stimulate a faster response from the distant elevator, right? It’s a useless action, right? Or is it?…
Twelve Failings That Kill Consultants (And Most Others)
• Failing to return a legitimate email request within a day. NO ONE is so busy that they can’t return email messages in a day, unless you are allowing all…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 4/21/14
This week’s focus point: Bentley, my white Shepherd, runs everywhere. He’ll stop to sniff or play with something, but then he’ll run along to his next appointment or adventure. He…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/30/2019
Don Imus died a couple of days ago, aged 79. Imus was the first “shock jock,” before Howard Stern, for whom the adjective “irascible” was apparently created. He was…
Reality IS Perception
I hear a lot of consultants asking themselves (and me!), “What really happened in there?” It’s as if they had an experience in someone’s office, but are fairly certain their…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/22/13
July 22, 2013—Issue #200 This week’s focus point: The very first quote in the original Monday Morning Memo® was George Bernard Shaw’s “We don’t stop playing games because we grow…
Ouch!!
Sometimes I just get giddy about what’s going on around us, the mythology of life, and pranks and games we accept as valid without question. From today’s news: “In the…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 01/30/17
Instead of granting ourselves permission to speak or act, many of us deny ourselves permission. We may wait for others to act—although the seat belt sign is on, someone goes…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/15/13
July 15, 2013—Issue #199 This week’s focus point: The first step in behaving differently is in THINKING differently. What do you believe about yourself and your ability to help others?…
Guest Column: Why Technical Specialists Have A Tough Time Moving to Higher Value Work
Why Technical specialists have difficult times moving to work of higher value By Wayne McKinnon www.WayneMcKinnon.com Wayne is a Master Mentor and member of the Million Dollar Consulting® Mentor Hall…