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Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth® is a weekly broadcast from “The Rock Star of Consulting,” Alan Weiss, who holds forth with his best (and often most contrarian) ideas about society, culture, business, and personal growth. His 60+ books in 12 languages, and his travels to, and work in, 50 countries contribute to a fascinating and often belief-challenging 20 minutes that might just change your next 20 years.
Episodes
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Generosity
SHOW NOTES: •Generosity should coexist with healthy boundaries. •Giving should. not require neglecting your own well-being. •Generosity is most meaningful when…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Entitlement
SHOW NOTES: Wherein the people in real or petty power learn what it's like for others to have to follow the often asinine rules that the former create. And why…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Politics
SHOW NOTES: If you're sensitive or overly partisan about politics, don't listen. Alan takes on the lying, cheating, obfuscation, and essentially greed that is…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Do I Have What You Claim I have_
SHOW NOTES: Have you noticed how we're drowned with ills and maladies and their cures and remedies? During the unceasing bombardment (arthritis, incontinence…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Bringing Shallowness to New Depths
SHOW NOTES: • More cheats, frauds, schemers, liars and thieves than ever in our perception. The turning point was internet access. • Men's and women's sob…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Difficult Conversations
SHOW NOTES: There is a great deal of work being done today around what's called "difficult conversations." I think the work is important and needed. In my…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Rocky Road of AI
SHOW NOTES: AI isn't perfect or infallible. It is subject to construction by human and human user error. It's ideal to help you consolidate and remind you of…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®On the Cheap
SHOW NOTES: • Plastic cup lids that pop off and spill all over you. • Cheap plastic water bottle with tiny, cheap caps that you twist, squeeze the bottle, and…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Political Realities
SHOW NOTES: •Influencers have been found (by the NYT) to be changing their tune from objective recommenders to shills for politicians. Josh Green and Carlos…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Pet Peeves
SHOW NOTES: •People who walk into a breakfast restaurant carrying Starbuck's coffee. •Those too lazy to use directional signals. •The demand for "spiced…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Return on Taxation
SHOW NOTES: Two major sentiments about how the US (and most countries) treat the citizenry and how to finance and provide the funding. Every person deserves a…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Self-Absorbed
SHOW NOTES: Signs of the self-centered: •Every conversation is turned back to themselves. •They pause to discuss the play in the middle of the theater exits…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Courage of Your Talent
SHOW NOTES: I've consulted with, coached, and advised a huge diversity of people over the decades. They include executives, entertainers, politicians…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Hangar
SHOW NOTES: The Bishop of Fall River, MA, told me an interesting story recently in Nantucket. It seems he was present during a memorial service held in a huge…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Wrong End
SHOW NOTES: In professional services (and even in most product companies) trying to "raise the price" is the wrong place to start. You need to begin by raising…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Entitlement
SHOW NOTES: Do we have toxic workplaces or toxic employees who make workplaces harmful and unhealthy? Are we terminally entitled? I found that there was no…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Survey This
SHOW NOTES: Have you noticed the increase in surveys from hotels, airlines, online retailers, and even medical practices? These are usually accompanied by…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Bigger Isn't Better
SHOW NOTES: The Super Bowl halftime show; the World Cup; the Masters championship; the US Open Tennis championship; the Oscars; July 4th; Christmas lights…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Road to Excess
SHOW NOTES: World Cup attendance and revenues are disappointing. That's hardly surprising. The hype and publicity and exaggerated claims create a level of…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Talent and Tech
SHOW NOTES: Steven Spielberg created Jaws and Close Encounters. He used technology for the shark and the spaceship. But he used talent for the creation. Pablo…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Mixed Media Affect
SHOW NOTES: Long ago the Canadian sociologist and business expert, Marshall McLuhan, talked about the "mixed media affect," meaning that experts in one area…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Magic Bullet
SHOW NOTES: We’ve lost trust in major institutions: universities, medicine, journalism, the law, politicians, religion. (The recent rise in Catholic converts…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Contentiousness
SHOW NOTES: At a restaurant, I’m asked if I have food allergies when I make the reservation, then by the hostess when I arrive, then by the server who has my…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®London
SHOW NOTES: Wherein Alan shares his views of exotic car density, cab maneuvers, High Tea, American advantages in admiring the Royals, and the lies and…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Inappropriate Words
SHOW NOTES: “No worries” doesn’t mean “you’re welcome” it means “You didn’t bother me all that much.” “Perfect” doesn’t mean “thank you” it means “You got that…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Empty Your Mind
SHOW NOTES: The fallacy is that you should be prepared to “spring” in a sales call to “pitch” the sale, like a cheetah on the Serengeti chasing an eland. Well…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Randy Gage
SHOW NOTES: The following guest column by Randy Gage is an excerpt from his new book, Wealth Without Apology, which is being released this week, and which will…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Perceived Value
SHOW NOTES: The airlines’ major frequent flyer programs began with American Airlines back in 1981 (thought Texas International Airlines had one in 1979)…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®MY Point of View
SHOW NOTES: "Josephine Victoria 'Joy" Behar is an American actress, playwright, comedian, and television host. She's best known for co-hosting the ABC talk…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Ayn Rand Schism
SHOW NOTES: • Two great American novels: Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. • She championed “objectivism” and individual accomplishment. • It’s not subtle, and…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Fore!
SHOW NOTES: • If you’re in love with golf, and especially hitting a ball into a bed sheet, I suggest you don’t listen to this. • Is watching multi-millionaires…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Peckin' Ducks
SHOW NOTES: Learn how to learn from ducks, geese, otters, herons, egrets, turtles, osprey, and fish. They're bolder than many of you. Of course, they have to…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Evaporation of Education
SHOW NOTES: Higher education is going extinct. Tuitions are sky high forcing parents to take out second mortgages or kids to mortgage their future by owing…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®INMJ
SHOW NOTES: INMJ (It’s not my job.) Some people define their job as the absolute minimal effort to be expended and not be penalized. It’s about laziness, lousy…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Workers
SHOW NOTES: •There are no "humble" jobs •The less on Downton Abbey •The doers vs. the administrators •Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night •Blue is…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Delight
SHOW NOTES: Alysa Liu won the woman's gold medal for figure skating a couple of days ago, our first in 24 years! Watching her and listening to her prior…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Curling
SHOW NOTES: The winter Olympics had a boring opening ceremony except for Andrea Bocelli. Some of the events seem duplicative, especially figure skating and…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Reverse Bucket List
SHOW NOTES: Maybe you have this "bucket list" thing all wrong, where you can never fulfill your expectations. Here's a distinctly contrarian view.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Toxicity
SHOW NOTES: • Suddenly we have “toxic workplaces” (and need “psychological safety” and have “unhoused” people and “food insecure people). • We try to wallpaper…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Schism
SHOW NOTES: • Parents and kids were united in what was watched, experiences, and enjoyed in the early 50s. Gunsmoke, Soupy Sales, MASH, Bonanza, Sink the…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Perfectionism
SHOW NOTES: • The point is to live with imperfection. • Free of mistakes, we’re free of critique and ridicule is false • Perfectionism leads to huge stress •…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Character
SHOW NOTES: • Defined as moral and mental qualities; strengths and reputation. • It’s a matter of self-worth, or esteem, of personal dignity. • Also a matter…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Mama!!!
SHOW NOTES: Did people whine as much years ago as they do now? They won't let me succeed at my job. They won't hire me anywhere else. Maybe "toxic workplaces"…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Happy New Year
SHOW NOTES: New Year celebrations date back 4,000 years to ancient Babylon, where the festival of Akitu marked the new year around the spring equinox with…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Merry Christmas
SHOW NOTES: Two of the most popular Christmas Songs (aside from Mariah Carey’s cloying All I Want for Christmas Is You) are I’ll Be Home for Christmas (Kim…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®That's All I Have
SHOW NOTES: We had left Vigil Mass on Saturday night where I helped serve Communion as a Eucharistic Minister. (I’ll be the lector next week.) We drove ten…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Political Bloviation
SHOW NOTES: I am neither aware nor unaware. Did. you lobby to get her on the board? She'll make an excellent board member. But did you arrange for her…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Alone Again, Or Maybe Not
SHOW NOTES: I heard an "influencer" today on a morning talk show explain that dating, or having any ongoing relationship, is no longer considered favorable. In…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Courage of Your Talent
SHOW NOTES: I've been consulting, coaching, advising and otherwise helping people to achieve success, personally and professionally, for over half a century…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Process vs Content
SHOW NOTES: If you want to maximize your business growth, you need to generalize and not specialize. There may be exceptions, but generally, the more potential…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Bag Lady
SHOW NOTES: I don’t want to give this away, suffice it to say it’s about panic vs. calm, and successful marriages vs. rocky ones.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Small Business, Small Minds?
SHOW NOTES: •Why do such a staggeringly large percentage fail? •They don't respond to inquiries when busy. •They tend to create prices based on wealth of…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Decline
SHOW NOTES: It seems as if civilization, especially the arts, are in decline. Famed authors are "mailing it in" (or really writing to try to sell a screenplay…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The WhaleSale™
SHOW NOTES: Strategic WhaleSale™ Approach- Alan and Lisa discussed the concept of "WhaleSales," which involves targeting large, high-value clients to maximize…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®David McCullough
SHOW NOTES: My tribute to one of the greatest historians in our history. This is the speech he made in 1995 when receiving the hugely prestigious National Book…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The High and the Mighty
SHOW NOTES: There was a song from the movie of the same name called The High and the Mighty, by Dimitri Tiomkin, nominated for an Oscar. It was about a…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Why You May Never Be Happy
SHOW NOTES: •The lessons of the newspaper woman. •The causes of toxic workplaces, more often than not. •The 90-minute wrench. •It's not your mother's fault…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Better Practices
SHOW NOTES: •Never talk to people who can say "no" but can't say "yes." •Treat the buyer as a peer, not a superior. • Have a conversation, don't make a…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Business Fads
SHOW NOTES: If you're in favor of this stuff, listen carefully to the audio. You're driving on the wrong side of the road. •servant leadership •holacracy…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Social Proof
SHOW NOTES: •This is an almost subliminal technique to create normative pressure psychologically. •It's pointing out what others are doing, or not doing, or…