Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 01/14/19
In the footsteps of Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, and Billy Crystal, no one is willing today to accept the job of emceeing the Oscars. What was once a huge visibility, highly sought position is now a position wrought with danger.
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 01/07/19
I've recently finished facilitating a session for what many people would call a "mastermind group." We call it an "elite retreat." What stunned me is that we've been meeting for eight years and that we've increased the meetings to two
Episode 30: The Discipline of Learning
How we're not preparing our kids for the basic learning that many of us were prepared for in simpler times. "How have you published so many books?" "How do you know that?" "How do you write so fast?" These are questions I get asked often. I have a simple secret. In grammar school, I paid attention. How do we expect to move forward
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 08/21/17
Some people are "looking for 'like' in all the wrong places." If you want to be loved, get a dog. If you want to be liked, go on social media. But the search for affection in place of respect
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/24/17
I'm back from the Jersey Shore—huge, clean beaches, great breakers, and family amusements up and down the boardwalk. It is as diverse a crowd as you can imagine. Twenty years ago we thought it was diverse because of all
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/17/17
The TV series Game of Thrones began a new and penultimate season last night. (I'm not revealing anything here, no worries, a sort of reverse trigger warning.) It's now "off the (George R.R. Martin) book" so the plots are
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/10/17
I'm on a Delta flight from Boston to Atlanta a few years ago, and the first class service is even better than usual. And, I notice the guy across the aisle is getting even better service than I am!