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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®Value Follows Fees
SHOW NOTES: •We think the higher the value, the more we can charge. •However, at a given point, people believe they get what they pay for and those lines…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Verbosity
SHOW NOTES: •Do you know people who are loquacious, verbose, prolix? •Ask a "yes or no" question and they respond with opinions, history, and self-therapy…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Profitable Problems
SHOW NOTES: People want problems solved, even if you caused them! Learn how Katz's Deli and Mercedes Benz have turned problems into profits. Don't look for…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Body Language
SHOW NOTES: There are myriad claims on social media that are justified by the author observing (or being a self-proclaimed expert in) "body language." I have…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Jumbotron
SHOW NOTES: •Let's stop the hypocrisy around this affair. •This goes on all over, government, business, education. •I've seen it, many people know the…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Golf
SHOW NOTES: •Why is Scottie Sheffler likely to become the greatest golfer ever? •Why is mental attitude the key to winning? •How some sports prompt more…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Mercedes and Anastasia
SHOW NOTES: We strongly suggest you view the video of this conversation using this link: https://alanweiss.com/mercedes-and-anastasia/ Mercedes and Anastasia…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Unicorns
SHOW NOTES: One of the most corrupted words in the language recently is "unicorn," which is a mythical creature. "Mythical" means "not real." Yet all kinds of…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Generations
SHOW NOTES: •We should avoid generations stereotyping. •We're really better off than we're led to believe. •Try living in Denmark or Iceland. •Magic bullets…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®RIP Frank McGuire
SHOW NOTES: Here's just a part of the obituary of my friend and former subordinate, Francis X. McGuire from 2010: "...a unique man whose professional life…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Fall Down Quaking
SHOW NOTES: Fight, Flight, Fright, or Fall Down Quaking We feel powerless in an age of volatility and disruption, of lack of trust in our institutions, and of…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Beat Bot
SHOW NOTES: ° State of the art robots for pools. ° Found two years ago in a high-end magazine. ° Took a chance. ° Outstanding results. ° Second season, this…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Unmasked
SHOW NOTES: Covid was a surprise, but not completely unexpected. Financial people were prepared for some "big event." The scientific, medical, and political…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Affiliations
SHOW NOTES: Why are politicians asking for support without revealing the party they represent? Because they're embarrassed or duplicitous, or both? Why don't…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Claims
SHOW NOTES: There are jobs that many of us would prefer not to have and businesses we'd prefer not to own, but they provide valuable services. Someone has to…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Transgressions
SHOW NOTES: When I was teaching a graduate course as a "side hustle" for MBA and PhD candidates at the University of Rhode Island, I inherited a student who…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®An American Pope
SHOW NOTES: The odds were better for the biggest longshot in the Kentucky Derby. An American has become Pope. It was said that no American could become Pope…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Life in These United States
SHOW NOTES: •There was once a Readers Digest staple by this name, still available in summaries. •Here's mine. Keep in mind, when you critique someone who…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Once A Cheat
Show Notes: I knew kids in high school and college who cheated. They stole exams or looked at other people's answers or had someone else take tests for them…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Great Social Media Quality Dilution
Show Notes: •Quality diminishes as numbers increase. •As everyone joins in, fewer and fewer real authorities. •A guy doesn't publish directly, but is…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Panic
SHOW NOTES: The threshold of rational behavior and values overcome by opposing normative pressures. The rioter's justification. The battlefield. The social…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®How to Make Sure You Lose Business
You can't deal with Hardly Relevant or Losing and Dying. You must be paid at least a deposit in advance. You must have "non-cancellable" under terms and…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®What's Wrong with Nonprofits
While it's true that nonprofits often fail for lack of funding, there are reasons that they don't achieve funding or that they use it incorrectly and/or…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Perils of Uncertainty
Uncertainty leads to poor choices. People seek certainty at the cost of their well-being. We have been "certain" about such horrors as eugenics and such…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Wealth Misplaced?
I'm a capitalist. Socialism and the rest simply favor the few at the top, from Lenin to Hitler to Castro. Yet we do have too high a level of poverty. In the…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Who Is the Buyer, Anyway?
SHOW NOTES Let's stop using inaccurate terms, such as VITO (Very Important Top Officer) or "C-suite," which doesn't actually exist. Let's focus on real buyers…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®AMscams
Usually found on AM radio, sometimes TV infomercials, sometimes online ads. They involve an "authority" you've never heard of and an interlocutor you've never…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Radon
Radon is a radioactive gas that has no smell, colour or taste. Radon is produced from the natural radioactive decay of uranium, which is found in all rocks and…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Mad As Hell
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore" This is a line from the 1976 movie Network. The line is spoken by Howard Beale, a character who is…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Being Polite
Show Notes: Consider two axes, one or importance (of a job, career, project, relationship) and the other of courtesy. Thus, we run from unimportant to…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Lisa Miller on the Future of Healthcare
Lisa Miller is an expert and thought leader in efficiencies and effectiveness in health care, including how to sell in changing environments to health care…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Battleground States and Term Limits
A "battleground state" in a US election is a state where either candidate might win depending on the appeal to voters and for whom the majority votes. This is…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®War's End
War’s End? We’ve honored the character and acts of Jimmy Carter upon his death, as we should. But most of the honor was due to his works after he left his…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Gratitude
We made four significant charitable contributions to the arts at year end. Two of the the group’s management called to thank us. Whenever I see a positive…
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Predictions
Show Notes: Predictions • Both wars will run out of steam and end, officially or unofficially. • There will be insurrections in Iran. • Neither the Dodgers…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Replacing Resolutions
Forget resolutions that are broken in 90 minutes. Try to focus on the good things that you do and that happen to you. Try a personal journal. You don’t have to…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®December 25, 2024
These are times of astounding incivility, harassment, and dismissiveness. These acts are based on a posturing of moral superiority, as if mere disagreement…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®All the Wrong Places
Are you looking where it's easy or where you're more likely to succeed? We content ourselves with people who can say no and can't say yes. We seek affection…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®What You’re NOT Entitled To
We seem to have a sense of entitlement. We believe we’re being “ghosted” (a ridiculous term) when people don’t return our calls because we didn’t sufficiently…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Consistently Winning
You steer into a skid; you don't try to get out of it because then you lose control. We have to exploit opportunities and deal with setbacks…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Relativism
Relativism holds that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, and/or historical context and are not absolute. I’m not so sure…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Letters and Columns
The post-mortems from those who did not back the winner in this presidential election seem to be two-fold. On one hand, we have a group of insightful people…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Friends
We all need friends, but not the same ones! Friends need to evolve as we grow, mature, and change. Marshall Goldsmith and I wrote Lifestorming together, and we…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Election
This election reflects a totally flawed Democratic strategy: • Painting your opponent as toxic but not having positive policies. • A candidate who cannot speak…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Little Round Top
The turning point in the American Civil War—and probably world history—occurred in Gettysburg on a rise called Little Round Top. At that place, at that time, a…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Here Comes The Judge
We all get the kind of government we deserve. If you voted for the winner of the election, that’s good until such time as you feel promises aren’t being kept…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Pressure
Bill Russell, in Second Wind, defines pressure and performance. For example: - Brady coming back from 25 points down in the second half of the Super Bowl. -…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Peregrinations
Many people in Rhode Island have never been to Boston, let alone New York. I’ve coached a very successful entrepreneur who has never been to New York and…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Esteem
Esteem means respect and admiration. Hence, self-esteem would mean respect and admiration for yourself. Self-worth and self-esteem are the same thing to me…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Small Business, Small Minds
The rate of failures of small businesses is astounding: 20% fail during the first two years, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during the first ten…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Credibility with a Buyer
Some suggestions to build credibility with a buyer during the initial meeting. (This assumes you’re meeting with a true economic buyer who controls the…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Civics Lesson
There are 330 million people in the US that we know of. There are 12,500 school districts, 18,000 police departments, 17,000 libraries, 400 different languages…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Sermons
This is a marketing lesson for the Catholic Church. I’m a lector and a Eucharistic Minister in the Church and converted 18 years ago. As some of you know, I’ve…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®The Wealth We Ignore
The agenda of inequality and wealth focused only on the richest might not reconcile with reality. There have been increases in home ownership (even though…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Just Tell Me What I Want to Know
Just tell me what I want to know. People instead tell you everything that they know. College professors are reading their dissertation notes. Electricians are…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®For Crying Out Loud
Even in truly tough times and horrible market segments, there are winners and strong companies. You have to play the hand you’re dealt, and you have to play it…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Winning And Losing
If you win a race by .001 seconds, have you really “won.”? And certainly, you’re not the “best in the world.” On that day, in that place, at that time, you…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Cowbells
The Olympics sparked several replays of an Australian swimmer, Cate Campbell, being interviewed on what I think was an Australian TV news show. In a prior…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Wowsers
You’ve known wowsers. They’re always trying to be the “second smartest person in the room,” and they correct you even though you’re correct to begin with. They…
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®A Conversation with Seth Kahan
People may think of a "Grand Challenge" as an exceptionally worthy and difficult problem to solve, and they'd be right. But it's also representative of a more…