Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/12/12
March 12, 2012—Issue #129 This week’s focus point: Almost every good intention, taken to extremes, has an invidious dimension that undermines us. Many people want to help
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/5/12
March 5, 2012—Issue #128 This week’s focus point: If you read Walter Isaacson's extraordinary biography of Steve Jobs, you encounter someone who, for a great deal of
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 2/27/12
February 27, 2012—Issue #127 This week’s focus point: If most of your problems, setbacks, and defeats are caused by others, then how do you ever prevent them in the future? We need to "own" our failures, because that's how
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 2/20/12
February 20, 2012—Issue #126 This week’s focus point: If you want to be regarded as a brilliant conversationalist, ask others questions. If you want to be perceived
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 2/13/12
February 13, 2012—Issue #125 This week’s focus point: Despite the historical claims that "involvement" and "consensus" and "commitment over compliance" are important for employee productivity and performance,
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 2/6/12
February 6, 2012—Issue #124 This week’s focus point: Bill Russell, the great basketball player, observed that a true champion is at his best when under the most
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 1/30/12
January 30, 2012—Issue #123 This week’s focus point: Be judicious in terms of those to whom you choose to listen and heed. Very few pundits and prognosticators
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 1/23/12
January 23, 2012—Issue #122 This week’s focus point: I've read that Picasso's mother told him that he would become Pope if he joined the clergy, and a
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 1/16/12
January 16, 2012—Issue #121 This week’s focus point: You can teach people the content of a business, but you can't teach them enthusiasm. You can instruct them
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 1/9/12
January 9, 2012—Issue #120 This week’s focus point: Has anyone thought about a strategy for education? In corporate strategy, we paint a picture of the future and
