Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/14/2024
Where has judgment gone? We once had managers and coaches in sports who determined what play to call, which players should play in what positions, how best to use the time remaining, and so on. These decisions, of course, are still made. But
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/07/2024
As you might suspect, I get letters. Monday Morning Memo generates more feedback than any of my other daily, weekly, or monthly newsletters, podcasts, blog posts, or videos. And 99.9% is wonderful. Many people agree with me, often with a stressed
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/30/2024
I have a category on my blog (Alan Weiss’s Contrarian Consulting®) called DASM: Dumb Ass Stupid Management. I wanted to title one of my books that way, but the publisher was too frightened and called it Our Emperors Have No Clothes. There are
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/23/2024
Since I “turned” 65 I’ve commercially published 15 books. I’ve conducted about 6,800 coaching sessions, hosted about 130 remote workshops and 65 live sessions. I’ve visited north of two dozen other countries, and posted somewhere around 4,800 public blog posts
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/16/2024
I love satire. I think it’s a type of humor that creates perspective and can also deflate huge egos. (I once walked into a filled theater of my colleagues in a professional association in New York in the days of
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/09/2024
Last week, our white German Shepherd, Royce, turned two, which is officially the end of puppyhood. As we’ve done with all our dogs on a significant birthday, my wife drove to get him an ice cream sundae, since all dogs
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/02/2024
My father told me a story about his days in the military whereby a messenger brought an envelope for a colonel. The corporal at the desk signed for it in the log with his initials and, upon the colonel’s return,
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/26/2024
Logical Fallacies or Hypocrisy? • If highway safety and climate concerns are such priorities, why do we allow the manufacture and sale of cars that can go up to 200 miles-per-hour? • If we know that cigarette smoking causes cancer with high
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/19/2024
I think at one point in our lives or another we crave to belong to the “in-crowd.” There was a song about this called, unsurprisingly, “The ‘In’ Crowd," written by Billy Page in 1964 and performed by Dobie Gray (and later
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/12/2024
For over ten years, Suzanne Bates, now “retired” having sold her business, was a client of mine, a former news anchor in Boston and the CEO of a development firm she founded and later sold. One day, visiting my office