Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/06/2021
Here is the dictionary definition of “tribe”: A social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader. One of
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/29/2021
Here we are on the Monday after Thanksgiving in the US, and I’m finding people less thankful! I’m hearing the whining again about supply chain shortages, staffing shortages, “woke” intrusions, political enmity, inflation, and on and on. I once thought it
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/22/2021
I watched a professional speaker once who would periodically take a shot of cough syrup and pop a pill. He apologized, but said this is what professionals do, they perform even when they’re not feeling 100%. Well, not quite. Professionals perform
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/15/2021
My grandmother lived to 102 (she may have been 104, but she always lied about her age). She lived to see her great-grandchildren. She had come over from Odessa at age 15. She made the greatest pickles, and wouldn’t divulge
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 05/24/2021
Remember Fahrenheit 451, the book and movie about the burning of books (that's the temperature needed)? Or 1984 or Animal Farm? These were fictional, fantasies, about a Big Brother and speech control and suppression. Well, the employees of Simon & Schuster
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 05/17/2021
I’ve helped a great many people improve their incomes. I’ve advocated “paying themselves first” as revenue comes in and establishing reserves. Depending upon one’s situation, there may be education, new houses, vacations, eldercare, weddings, philanthropy, and so forth in the
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 05/10/2021
I read in the Boston Globe that about a quarter of all Boston restaurants closed during the past year. My reaction, both there and elsewhere, was to think about why so many survived and now have reopened. Others have complained
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 05/03/2021
I celebrate my awkward and embarrassing moments because they always teach me a lesson. If you're doing the same, stupid thing repeatedly—well, you may have a problem (sort of like rooting for the Detroit Lions). However, once we're aware of
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 04/26/2021
Decades ago, I never wore a seat belt in a car. I learned to drive and drove for many years without seatbelts even installed in cars. I didn't use the one in my '74 Corvette. But then I saw the
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 04/19/2021
We had a substitute teacher one day in grammar school, sixth grade, and he gave us an assignment to sell something to the class the next day. Kids sold cuff links, perfume, bikes. I attempted to sell happiness, offering a