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Random Thoughts

Random Thoughts

• My thanks to the people at the National Speakers Association who met in Williamsburg on Friday and invited me to spend the morning with them. My wife and I had a wonderful time.

• I recently provided a free teleconference and free download on innovation to over 20,000 people on my various lists (all subscribed or opt-in). One wrote back with questions he wanted answered, two demanded I remove them from my lists, and two complained about the technology. One other couldn’t open the download and, of course, told me I had a problem. But that’s a very tiny minority, I’m pleased to report, because hundreds wrote to thank me, which was unnecessary but a nice gesture.

• The Virginia countryside is gorgeous, but the notion of staying right except to pass is as alien to the drivers down there as is how to conduct a high tea for the queen, I’d suspect. The roads become clogged because people refuse to get out of the way, as if their ego were a hood ornament.

• Republic Airways, subcontracting to USAir, ran a fine first class from Providence to Washington and back: Embraer aircraft with plenty of leg room.

• We’re going to see Renée Taylor tonight in her one-woman show in Woonsocket (of all places, I’ll have to use GPS). She’s 81. We used to sit five feet away from Elaine Stritch, in her 80s, doing her act at Café Carlyle in Manhattan. Maybe I have a few more years before I hit my peak….

© Alan Weiss 2014

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Alan Weiss is a consultant, speaker, and author of over 60 books. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., has attracted clients from over 500 leading organizations around the world.

Comments: 2

  • Gail Sturgess

    May 18, 2014

    Have just gotten around to listening to the Innovation download. Many thanks, I’ve enjoyed it and would love to see the 16-box matrix.

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