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 only walks when he's on a leash, and he seldom
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 4/14/14
This week's focus point: Almost anything taken to an extreme is going to run counter to the original intent. I find health and exercise fanatics who look, well, positively unhealthy. Barry Goldwater was warned not to use the phrase "extremism
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 4/7/14
This week's focus point: Try telling stories. That's what I do in my speeches, informal talks, even my conversation. They are the shortcut to comprehension, and prevent long discourses where a quick example is sufficient. People identify with personal stories,
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/31/14
This week's focus point: I'm thinking of Y2K, acid rain, more people than food, killer bees, disappearing bees, food dyes, eggs are bad for you (they can be good), meat is bad for you (it can be good), red wine
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/24/14
This week's focus point: I read all the requests for "likes" on Facebook, and even recommendations for how to solicit more of them. They may be harmless enough, but I wonder if they're replacing the fact that many people don't
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/17/14
This week's focus point: Remember the book and movie "Fail Safe," where we were powerless to recall our own bomber from dropping a nuclear bomb? Malaysian military people at their posts specifically charged with identifying encroaching planes failed to identify
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/10/14
This week's focus point: Some people are fortunate enough to have had ego support as youngsters, with consistently positive feedback and experiences. They have had a good chance at achieving a life of self-actualization and self-mastery, becoming excellent judges of
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/3/14
This week's focus point: Values are starkly different from appearances. The Russians conducted a safe and successful Winter Olympics, and by all indications were gracious hosts. Two weeks later, they march into an independent country and occupy a major portion
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 2/24/14
This week's focus point: Once again, we witness a stunning revolution, this time in the Ukraine. The real question now, as in Egypt and Libya, is freedom for what purpose? Will people join in collaboration to create reforms, or will
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 2/17/14
February 17, 2014—Issue #230 This week's focus point: The issues in our lives have to be concurrent, not sequential. When I was chair of the planning board in my town I had to convince people that you didn't wait until every
