Search the Site Using Keywords Check Out Wally's New Book Ask Wally a Question Recent Monday Memo Features Here are some recent Monday Memo features. You can browse by topic area or browse a complete list of recent features. Amazing People Companies Issues Digital Age Leadership Strategy Marketing Future Recent Features Happiness (3 May 2004) Thomas Kinkade: Marketer of Lightness (26 April 2004) They're Phishing for Your Information: Don't Take the Bait (19 April 2004) Intellectuals and Civilized Truth Tellers (12 April 2004) Looking Ahead at Politics and the Net (5 April 2004) There Are No Stars Tonight but Those of Memory (29 March 2004) Whatever Happened to the "Daily Me?" (22 March 2004) Spam, Spam, Go Away (15 March 2004) Steve Jobs: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (8 March 2004) Lessons about Business on the Web from the Wide World of Insurance (1 March 2004) Checking the Schools for Lead Users (23 February 2004) Too Many Choices, Too Little Time (16 February 2004) Online Dating (9 February 2004) Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com: Profit by the Numbers (2 February 2004) Snow Day (26 January 2004) Looking Back a Half a Century (19 January 2004) Things My Father Taught Me (12 January 2004) My Father is Gone (5 January 2004) Two Tales of Customer Service (29 December 2003) Saying Good-Bye to My Dying Father (22 December 2003) More Than Just a Pretty Picture (15 December 2003) Specialty Toy Retailers: An Endangered Species (8 December 2003) Christmas and Courtesy (1 December 2003) Everybody Talks About the Weather Channel (24 November 2003) Bugsy Siegel, Las Vegas, and Internet Gambling (17 November 2003) Howard Dean: What a Way to Run a Campaign (10 November 2003) Larry Ellison and the Network Computer that Wasn't (3 November 2003) The Profitable Difference (27 October 2003) Dog Walking, Crime Fighting and Responsibility (20 October 2003) If We're Both Working, Why Do We Need to Borrow So Much? (13 October 2003 eBay Nation (6 october 2003) Sing a Song of Piracy (29 September 2003) What's the Story on E-Books? (22 September 2003) In Memoriam: Johnny Cash (15 September 2003) Finding the Future in Little Things (8 September 2003) Non-Labor Day (1 September 2003) A Dream is Not Enough (25 August 2003) Accentuate the Positive (18 August 2003) I Don't Read Tom Clancy's Books Any More (11 August 2003) Besides Discovering Elvis, What Else Did You Do?(4 August 2003) Gurus Galore! (28 July 2003) Wow! The Government Says We're Fat! Now What? (21 July 2003) Multitasking: An Extreme Sport for the Digital Age (14 July 2003) The Mortgage Industry is Heading for Disaster (7 July 2003) Independence Day (30 June 2003) The Ford Saga(23 June 2003) David Brinkley: The Town is Father to the Man(16 June 2003) What is It with Martha Stewart? (9 June 2003) eBay or Amazon? (2 June 2003) Memorial Day 2003 (26 May 2003) What's the Next Barry Diller Thriller? (19 May 2003) Lessons from Semco on Structure, Growth and Change (12 May 2003) The Independent Information Entrepreneur, Then and Now (5 May 2003) It's Time for New Ideas in the Airline Business (28 April 2003) Scoping Out the Search Engine Business (21 April 2003) Uncommon Failure (14 April 2003) Adam Osborne: From Here to Obscurity (7 April 2003) And Now, the War News (31 March 2003) Cowboy Heroes (24 March 2003) McDonald's: When the Passion is Gone, the Profits are Over (17 March 2003) People of the World, Throw Off Your Cords! (10 March 2003) Can You Say "Role Model" Boys and Girls? (3 March 2003) Ron Popeil and the Amazing Infomercial (24 February 2003) Bob Nardelli: Something to Prove (17 February 2003) Marvin Bower: Quality, Integrity and Principles (10 February 2003) Risk, Romance and Heroes (3 February 2003) Worm, Worm, Go Away (27 January 2003) Mergers, Bubbles, and Steve Case (20 January 2003) Shareholder Value at Any Price (13 January 2003) Internet in the Mainstream (6 January 2003) Looking Back, Looking Forward (30 December 2002) Thank-You Notes (23 December 2002) What Would Mom Think of Today's Holiday Shopping? (16 December 2002) Choose Wisely (9 December 2002) Hopalong Cassidy, My Hero (2 December 2002) Harley-Davidson at One Hundred: An American Story (25 November 2002) The Future of Book Publishing (18 November 2002) When Bad Things Happen to Good Business (11 November 2002) All the "Experts," All the Time (4 November 2002) Personal Selling in the Digital Age (28 October 2002) Ivy Covered Web: Colleges in the Digital Age (21 October 2002) Behavioral Economics (14 October 2002) Look About You (7 October 2002) Delivering Value (30 September 2002) Starbucks Voyage of Success (23 September 2002) Finding a New Home, Using the Net (16 September 2002) Lessons From 9/11 (9 September 2002) Free Agent Notion (2 September 2002) Old, and Often Forgotten by Marketers (26 August 2002) One Ringy-Dingy ... (19 August 2002) Give Me That Online Religion (12 August 2002) HR: Waiting for the C-Suite (5 August 2002) Punish the Fat Cat Crooks (29 July 2002) J. C. Penney: 100 Years of Retail (22 July 2002) Masters of Innovation (15 July 2002) Ted Williams: Hero, Hedgehog, Hitter (8 July 2002) Fourth of July Road Trip (1 July 2002) The Strategist (24 June 2002) Attack of the Killer Ads (17 June 2002) Turn Your Radio On, Turn Your (Satellite?) Radio On (10 June 2002) In Memoriam: Stephen Jay Gould (3 June 2002) Memorial Day: This Year It's Different (27 May 2002) Trust (or Not) (20 May 2002) Getting It Right (13 May 2002) Information Wants to be Free, but Someone has to Pay (6 May 2002) Profitable Auto Dealerships in the Digital Age (29 April 2002) What We Did on My Traditional Summer Vacation (22 April 2002) Digital Darwinism (15 April 2002) Digital Deceit (8 April 2002) April Fool's Day (1 April 2002) The Baby Boom Generation (25 March 2002) What's a Person To Do? (11 March 2002) It's a Disney World after All (11 March 2002) The Brothers Flynn, Email, and the Web (4 March 2002) The Olympic Spirit (25 February 2002) Rudy Giuliani: The Long View of Leadership (18 February 2002) Enron: Do You Believe This?! (11 February 2002) They May Be Soft Skills, But They're Real Important (4 February 2002) If You Don't Know Who You Are, Even Martha Stewart Can't Save You (28 January 2002) The New Retail (21 January 2002) Cooperating Software (14 January 2001) The New World of Work (7 January 2002) What's Ahead for 2002? (31 December 2001) Christmas Lessons (24 December 2001) The Legendary Christmas Truces (17 December 2001) Beating Goliath (10 December 2001) Holiday Shopping (3 December 2001) A Clear-Eyed View of Customer Loyalty (26 November 2001) The Times, They Are A-Changing, Faster and Faster (19 November 2001) We Were Creative Once, and Young (12 November 2001) How the Net Changes the Marketplace (5 November 2001) Why People Resist Good Ideas (29 October 2001) Alas, poor Polaroid, I knew them . . . (22 October 2001) Economics and Physics Envy (15 October 2001) My First Flight After September 11 (8 October 2001) Celebrity CEOs (1 October 2001) Rules of War (24 September 2001) What You Can Do (17 September 2001) Assessing Jack Welch (10 September 2001) Trust in the Boss (3 September 2001) The Buzz Virus (27 August 2001) Buying a Car Using the Net (20 August 2001) CNN Headline Fluff (13 August 2001) What About the Mobile Internet? (6 August 2001) Workplace Surveillance (30 July 2001) The X Files (23 July 2001) The Malling of America (16 July 2001) Giving Good Email (9 July 2001) The Millennial Generation (2 July 2001) How Do People Actually Work? (25 June 2001) Life Lessons (18 June 2001) A Man Who Changed the World (11 June 2001) Open Mail, Check Box, Opt-Out (4 June 2001) Memorial Day 2001 (28 May 2001) Yahoo the Site and Yahoo the Business (21 May 2001) Convenience (14 May 2001) Customer Relationship Managment (7 May 2001) Once Upon a Time (30 April 2001) It Isn't the Web (23 April 2001) Extra! Extra! Newspapers Prepare for the Digital Age (16 April 2001) From Dot-Com to Dot-Bomb (9 April 2001) All I Know is What I Read in My Email (2 April 2001) Getting It Wrong (26 March 2001) The Need for Speed (19 March 2001) Personalization (12 March 2001) Desperately Seeking Information (5 march 2001) Going International (26 February 2001) Napster (19 February 2001) Valentine's Day (12 February 2001) Designing Websites Based on What We Know (5 February 2001) Lessons from the Life of Al McGuire (29 January 2001) Changing the Way We Shop (22 January 2001) Dreams (15 January 2001) E-Books (8 January 2001) 2001 a Prediction Odessey (1 January 2001) Looking Back at 2000 (31 January 2000) Christmas Day 2000 (25 December 2000) Cancer & Christmas Both Begin with "C" (18 December 2000) Character (11 December 2000) From Geeks to Grandma (4 December 2000) Holiday Shopping (27 November 2000) Over the River and Through the Woods (20 November 2000) The Best of Times, The Worst of Times (13 November 2000) The Changing Nature of Police Work (6 November 2000) The Net Changes Everything (30 October 2000) My Dad (23 October 2000) It's Just a Game (16 October 2000) Friction-Free Commerce (9 October 2000) Making an Impact (2 October 2000) Take Back Control (25 September 2000) Government Double-Standards Online(18 September 2000) Interactive TV (11 September 2000) Labor Day (4 September 2000) Trust and Privacy (28 August 2000) Who's Online? 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Here are some recent Monday Memo features. You can browse by topic area or browse a complete list of recent features.
Happiness (3 May 2004) Thomas Kinkade: Marketer of Lightness (26 April 2004) They're Phishing for Your Information: Don't Take the Bait (19 April 2004) Intellectuals and Civilized Truth Tellers (12 April 2004) Looking Ahead at Politics and the Net (5 April 2004) There Are No Stars Tonight but Those of Memory (29 March 2004) Whatever Happened to the "Daily Me?" (22 March 2004) Spam, Spam, Go Away (15 March 2004) Steve Jobs: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (8 March 2004) Lessons about Business on the Web from the Wide World of Insurance (1 March 2004) Checking the Schools for Lead Users (23 February 2004) Too Many Choices, Too Little Time (16 February 2004) Online Dating (9 February 2004) Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com: Profit by the Numbers (2 February 2004) Snow Day (26 January 2004) Looking Back a Half a Century (19 January 2004) Things My Father Taught Me (12 January 2004) My Father is Gone (5 January 2004) Two Tales of Customer Service (29 December 2003) Saying Good-Bye to My Dying Father (22 December 2003) More Than Just a Pretty Picture (15 December 2003) Specialty Toy Retailers: An Endangered Species (8 December 2003) Christmas and Courtesy (1 December 2003) Everybody Talks About the Weather Channel (24 November 2003) Bugsy Siegel, Las Vegas, and Internet Gambling (17 November 2003) Howard Dean: What a Way to Run a Campaign (10 November 2003) Larry Ellison and the Network Computer that Wasn't (3 November 2003) The Profitable Difference (27 October 2003) Dog Walking, Crime Fighting and Responsibility (20 October 2003) If We're Both Working, Why Do We Need to Borrow So Much? (13 October 2003 eBay Nation (6 october 2003) Sing a Song of Piracy (29 September 2003) What's the Story on E-Books? (22 September 2003) In Memoriam: Johnny Cash (15 September 2003) Finding the Future in Little Things (8 September 2003) Non-Labor Day (1 September 2003) A Dream is Not Enough (25 August 2003) Accentuate the Positive (18 August 2003) I Don't Read Tom Clancy's Books Any More (11 August 2003) Besides Discovering Elvis, What Else Did You Do?(4 August 2003) Gurus Galore! (28 July 2003) Wow! The Government Says We're Fat! Now What? (21 July 2003) Multitasking: An Extreme Sport for the Digital Age (14 July 2003) The Mortgage Industry is Heading for Disaster (7 July 2003) Independence Day (30 June 2003) The Ford Saga(23 June 2003) David Brinkley: The Town is Father to the Man(16 June 2003) What is It with Martha Stewart? (9 June 2003) eBay or Amazon? (2 June 2003) Memorial Day 2003 (26 May 2003) What's the Next Barry Diller Thriller? (19 May 2003) Lessons from Semco on Structure, Growth and Change (12 May 2003) The Independent Information Entrepreneur, Then and Now (5 May 2003) It's Time for New Ideas in the Airline Business (28 April 2003) Scoping Out the Search Engine Business (21 April 2003) Uncommon Failure (14 April 2003) Adam Osborne: From Here to Obscurity (7 April 2003) And Now, the War News (31 March 2003) Cowboy Heroes (24 March 2003) McDonald's: When the Passion is Gone, the Profits are Over (17 March 2003) People of the World, Throw Off Your Cords! (10 March 2003) Can You Say "Role Model" Boys and Girls? (3 March 2003) Ron Popeil and the Amazing Infomercial (24 February 2003) Bob Nardelli: Something to Prove (17 February 2003) Marvin Bower: Quality, Integrity and Principles (10 February 2003) Risk, Romance and Heroes (3 February 2003) Worm, Worm, Go Away (27 January 2003) Mergers, Bubbles, and Steve Case (20 January 2003) Shareholder Value at Any Price (13 January 2003) Internet in the Mainstream (6 January 2003) Looking Back, Looking Forward (30 December 2002) Thank-You Notes (23 December 2002) What Would Mom Think of Today's Holiday Shopping? (16 December 2002) Choose Wisely (9 December 2002) Hopalong Cassidy, My Hero (2 December 2002) Harley-Davidson at One Hundred: An American Story (25 November 2002) The Future of Book Publishing (18 November 2002) When Bad Things Happen to Good Business (11 November 2002) All the "Experts," All the Time (4 November 2002) Personal Selling in the Digital Age (28 October 2002) Ivy Covered Web: Colleges in the Digital Age (21 October 2002) Behavioral Economics (14 October 2002) Look About You (7 October 2002) Delivering Value (30 September 2002) Starbucks Voyage of Success (23 September 2002) Finding a New Home, Using the Net (16 September 2002) Lessons From 9/11 (9 September 2002) Free Agent Notion (2 September 2002) Old, and Often Forgotten by Marketers (26 August 2002) One Ringy-Dingy ... (19 August 2002) Give Me That Online Religion (12 August 2002) HR: Waiting for the C-Suite (5 August 2002) Punish the Fat Cat Crooks (29 July 2002) J. C. Penney: 100 Years of Retail (22 July 2002) Masters of Innovation (15 July 2002) Ted Williams: Hero, Hedgehog, Hitter (8 July 2002) Fourth of July Road Trip (1 July 2002) The Strategist (24 June 2002) Attack of the Killer Ads (17 June 2002) Turn Your Radio On, Turn Your (Satellite?) Radio On (10 June 2002) In Memoriam: Stephen Jay Gould (3 June 2002) Memorial Day: This Year It's Different (27 May 2002) Trust (or Not) (20 May 2002) Getting It Right (13 May 2002) Information Wants to be Free, but Someone has to Pay (6 May 2002) Profitable Auto Dealerships in the Digital Age (29 April 2002) What We Did on My Traditional Summer Vacation (22 April 2002) Digital Darwinism (15 April 2002) Digital Deceit (8 April 2002) April Fool's Day (1 April 2002) The Baby Boom Generation (25 March 2002) What's a Person To Do? (11 March 2002) It's a Disney World after All (11 March 2002) The Brothers Flynn, Email, and the Web (4 March 2002) The Olympic Spirit (25 February 2002) Rudy Giuliani: The Long View of Leadership (18 February 2002) Enron: Do You Believe This?! (11 February 2002) They May Be Soft Skills, But They're Real Important (4 February 2002) If You Don't Know Who You Are, Even Martha Stewart Can't Save You (28 January 2002) The New Retail (21 January 2002) Cooperating Software (14 January 2001) The New World of Work (7 January 2002) What's Ahead for 2002? (31 December 2001) Christmas Lessons (24 December 2001) The Legendary Christmas Truces (17 December 2001) Beating Goliath (10 December 2001) Holiday Shopping (3 December 2001) A Clear-Eyed View of Customer Loyalty (26 November 2001) The Times, They Are A-Changing, Faster and Faster (19 November 2001) We Were Creative Once, and Young (12 November 2001) How the Net Changes the Marketplace (5 November 2001) Why People Resist Good Ideas (29 October 2001) Alas, poor Polaroid, I knew them . . . (22 October 2001) Economics and Physics Envy (15 October 2001) My First Flight After September 11 (8 October 2001) Celebrity CEOs (1 October 2001) Rules of War (24 September 2001) What You Can Do (17 September 2001) Assessing Jack Welch (10 September 2001) Trust in the Boss (3 September 2001) The Buzz Virus (27 August 2001) Buying a Car Using the Net (20 August 2001) CNN Headline Fluff (13 August 2001) What About the Mobile Internet? (6 August 2001) Workplace Surveillance (30 July 2001) The X Files (23 July 2001) The Malling of America (16 July 2001) Giving Good Email (9 July 2001) The Millennial Generation (2 July 2001) How Do People Actually Work? (25 June 2001) Life Lessons (18 June 2001) A Man Who Changed the World (11 June 2001) Open Mail, Check Box, Opt-Out (4 June 2001) Memorial Day 2001 (28 May 2001) Yahoo the Site and Yahoo the Business (21 May 2001) Convenience (14 May 2001) Customer Relationship Managment (7 May 2001) Once Upon a Time (30 April 2001) It Isn't the Web (23 April 2001) Extra! Extra! Newspapers Prepare for the Digital Age (16 April 2001) From Dot-Com to Dot-Bomb (9 April 2001) All I Know is What I Read in My Email (2 April 2001) Getting It Wrong (26 March 2001) The Need for Speed (19 March 2001) Personalization (12 March 2001) Desperately Seeking Information (5 march 2001) Going International (26 February 2001) Napster (19 February 2001) Valentine's Day (12 February 2001) Designing Websites Based on What We Know (5 February 2001) Lessons from the Life of Al McGuire (29 January 2001) Changing the Way We Shop (22 January 2001) Dreams (15 January 2001) E-Books (8 January 2001) 2001 a Prediction Odessey (1 January 2001) Looking Back at 2000 (31 January 2000) Christmas Day 2000 (25 December 2000) Cancer & Christmas Both Begin with "C" (18 December 2000) Character (11 December 2000) From Geeks to Grandma (4 December 2000) Holiday Shopping (27 November 2000) Over the River and Through the Woods (20 November 2000) The Best of Times, The Worst of Times (13 November 2000) The Changing Nature of Police Work (6 November 2000) The Net Changes Everything (30 October 2000) My Dad (23 October 2000) It's Just a Game (16 October 2000) Friction-Free Commerce (9 October 2000) Making an Impact (2 October 2000) Take Back Control (25 September 2000) Government Double-Standards Online(18 September 2000) Interactive TV (11 September 2000) Labor Day (4 September 2000) Trust and Privacy (28 August 2000) Who's Online? Doing What? (21 August 2000) Women Online (14 August 2000) Napster (31 July 2000) Drugstores, WebVan and Dot-Com Failure (24 July 2000)
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