Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/03/11
October 3, 2011—Issue #106 This week’s focus point: Deal versus loyalty? That's the big issue in the "coupon wars." I recall a training firm which would grow desperate to meet its annual goals, and offer huge discounts
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/26/11
September 26, 2011—Issue #105 This week’s focus point: Here's what we know: We live on a giant hunk of cosmic rock hurtling at 85,000 miles an hour around a constantly exploding star. Why shouldn't we take prudent risk, have
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/19/11
September 19, 2011—Issue #104 This week’s focus point: This is our two-year anniversary of Monday Morning Memo®. (I've reprinted the original one below.) Thanks for being a part of it. I'm writing this from Amalfi, on the
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/12/11
September 12, 2011—Issue #103 This week’s focus point: We respectfully mourn the dead and extend sympathies to their loved ones and families in our prayers and thoughts about 9/11. There were those who died by surprise and abruptly, and
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/05/11
September 5, 2011—Issue #102 This week’s focus point: It is said--though probably apocryphal--that Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest explained his victories by his "getting there firstest with the mostest." There is valid reasoning in getting there first.
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/22/11
August 22, 2011—Issue #101 This week’s focus point: Increasing revenue is a questionable goal, unless it's accompanied by reducing costs of acquisition and reduced labor intensity. The ideal solution is to attract buyers to you through brand recognition, word-of-mouth, strong intellectual
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/15/11
August 15, 2011—Issue #100 This week’s focus point: Wars, wild financial market swings, global warming, disease, totalitarian governments, budget cutbacks, rioting, health care reform, strikes, overindulged athletes, brainless entertainment shows, airport security humiliation, traffic congestion, pollution˜there's enough to be concerned about
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/08/11
August 8, 2011—Issue #99 This week’s focus point: In the US as the elections in 2012 approach (and elsewhere as elections approach), voters will suddenly receive a "newsletter" from their Representative or Senator apprising them of all that's been
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/01/11
August 1, 2011—Issue #98 This week’s focus point: As this appears, the U.S. faces defaulting on its debts and a downgrading of its credit unless legislators and the President can act collaboratively in the next 24 hours.
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/25/11
July 25, 2011—Issue #97 This week’s focus point: We need "white space" (the term is from text that's easier to read because of surrounding, empty space) in our lives, breathing room to reflect, to mourn, to rejoice,
