Honesty Requires Transparency
I’ve never understood all the fuss in the US about the royal family in England, who are obscenely wealthy and are a very expensive anachronism. However, I understand they play…
Just A Little Batty
I am not making this up. Associated Press is reporting a bat—Chiroptera, not Louisville Slugger—on a Delta Connection jet out of Wisconsin bound for Atlanta. After a couple of cabin…
Guest Column: Notre Dame and Rutgers
(This is a guest column from Dan Coughlin, a member of my Mentor Hall of Fame. You can find the original on his blog. You can find the Hall of…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/13/2021
My wife, TLM (the lovely Maria), is awaiting her second hip replacement, after having had one of those previously, as well as two knee replacements. I’m rebuilding her from…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 4/24/2023
I consulted with the American Press Institute for 20 years. On one occasion, with about 40 reporters in the session, a guy from the New York Times complained that his employers didn’t…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 04/15/2024
I’m going to address what everyone is talking about today, Sunday, and what will be critically reviewed and examined when you read this on Monday, involving international personalities, advisors, analysists,…
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 2/27/2023
Overall, 2,500 newspapers in the United States—a quarter of them—have closed since 2005 (Wikipedia). Over 360 closed since just before the start of the pandemic, but that was also the pace prior to the…
How to Monetize Ideas
Very few good ideas are ever monetized. They either drown amongst a lot of other, mostly bad, ideas, or they emerge not fully metamorphosed—crystalline, fragile constructions that blow apart in…
Instant Fame, Just Add Money and Zero Self-Respect
I heard about a speaker in the sales business—a name you’d recognize if you’re in that business—who was selling book testimonials. That’s right, if you want his endorsement on a…
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