Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 04/01/2019
When I was growing up there were several sources from which one learned of values and ethical behavior (although I never recognized them as such until much later in life). Today such issues are part of a polysemy without much
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 03/25/2019
I explain to people whom I coach that they should never assume the other person is somehow "damaged." Too many consultants assume immediately that the boss is the problem, even though the boss was smart enough to hire them for
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 03/18/19
I'm fascinated with the arguments about transgender people engaging in athletics. Renée Richards, an ophthalmologist and professional male tennis player, underwent male-to-female sex reassignment and competed as a woman in the 1976 US open. This caused a furor at the
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 03/11/19
There's relevant change and irrelevant change when you're trying to solve a problem. Relevant change occurs at or before the time the problem began. Irrelevant change begins after the problem began (it's irrelevant because the problem precedes it). The electrician told
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 03/04/19
I’m writing this on March 3 (yesterday as you read this), my 73rd birthday. I’ve led a life that I would never have imagined, never studied for, never majored in. What I have focused on is experimentation, innovation, education, and fearlessness.
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/25/19
We've just returned from Turks and Caicos, where we've never gone before. Everyone we know who's gone has raved about it. But we're healthy skeptics. We had heard great things about Nevis and went there a year ago and would
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/18/19
About 5,000 years ago: According to various sources, about a fifth of the Earth, excluding the poles, had been transformed somehow by humans. This degree of land use would have been sufficient to warm the local climate. Animals that lived
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/11/19
We’re in an age where stupid acts and utterings from 50 years ago can serve as proof that we're incompetent and of too poor a character today to serve in our current position, all other evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 02/04/19
The origins of the phrase “get a life” go back perhaps 40 years or so. As I interpret the taunt, it suggests that someone is zealously focused on relatively trivial matters and needs to reorient to the more important aspects
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 01/28/19
So now Notre Dame has bowed to the forces of political correctness and covered beautiful murals of Columbus (bringing Christianity to the New World) because of pressure from a minority demanding that presentism supercede history. I have only this to say: We
