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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®Episode 173: Football Lessons
Playing to win is not as obvious as you may think or, unfortunately, practice.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 172: Frank Advice
Why making noise when you yawn is so damn annoying.
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Episode 171: Interview with Lisa Bing
Episode 171: Interview with Lisa Bing by Alan Weiss
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Episode 170: Temptation
Is anyone capable of turning down the offer, of refusing the advantage, of cutting the line?
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Episode 169: Neither Rain Nor Snow...Oops
Why the newspaper guy in a small car beats the postal worker with a jeep.
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Episode 168: Remote Fooling About Schooling
The bus has broken down but no one wants to admit it.
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Episode 167: The Vaccine
We need more than a couple of shots in the arm.
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Episode 166: The Chief
How to get rich in law enforcement in a small town.
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Episode 165: Unselling
Can you refer me to a great coach? Let's talk about "unselling" and Evangelism.
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Episode 163: Business Renaissance
The good news is coming! The good news is coming!
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Episode 162 - Agendaization
Why agendas are simply selfish "to do" lists and can never satisfy those who don't wish to be satisfied.
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Episode 161 - Ironies
The Spartans had help and you'd better not eat like a bird.
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Episode 159 - Hate
Do you really hate "them"? We'll find out on Wednesday.
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Episode 158: Hidden Bias
The principal and the principle, and poor public schools.
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Episode 157: Small Business Sloth
Not only is it not rocket science to run a business, but it's also not even a sandbox.
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Episode 155: Symbolism
Wherein symbols replace substance and we're all the worse for it.
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Episode 154: The New New York Times
How the "newspaper of record" has become a broken record in trying to create loathing for American and guilt for Americans.
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Episode 151: Conventions
An examination of whether conventions accomplish anything at all and whether we care.
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Episode 152: Pandemic Peculiarities
Why you should be confused because some things just make no sense.
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Episode 150: The Doorman
Who's minding the store and how are customers being handled?
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Episode 149: Me or Your Lying Eyes?
Do you want to believe the propaganda or what you see?
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Episode 148: Why Are You Talking? I'm Not Listening.
The pachinko machine of unsolicited feedback.
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Episode 147: Memories
Violence is not protected by the constitution. Who will be left to protect you?
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Episode 146: Masked Selfishness
Pretending that not wearing a mask represents control is like claiming that not vaccinating your children isn't really stupid.
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Episode 145: Scrub-A-Dub
Can we and should we really try to scrub away past sins and shameful history, or try to learn from them?
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Episode 144: Post-Pandemic Business
How and why 25% of all business practices will change and what to do about it if you're smart.
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Episode 143: Overreactions
The doom loop of polarization and overreactions, and why I can't win unless you lose.
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Episode 142: Chutzpah
Alan explains true nerviness and why it's similar to criminal behavior.
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Episode 141: Tough Love
True love is knowing when to be tough about it.
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Episode 140: The Death of Sales
Play a dirge, the sales profession is being replaced by the leveraged consumer and customer. It's time to get out of Jurassic Park.
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Episode 139: Blinded by the Light
Examining our willingness to walk in what light we have.
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Episode 138: Small Blessings During Crisis
Even in the worst of times, good things emerge if we bother to experience them.
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Episode 137: There Are Dogs and There Are Dogs
How to quickly determine if there IS a dog on the internet.
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Episode 136: The Helping Hand or Sleight of Hand?
Beware the hand reaching out to you, are they giving or taking?
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Episode 135: The Law
Why we have too many lawyers, too much law, and not nearly enough justice.
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Episode 134: Here's A Tip
Why I loathe the miserly and how to act well when you're with one.
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Episode 133: A Conversation With Lisa Larter, The Best Damn Technology Marketing Strategist On Earth
For this special edition of The Uncomfortable Truth, I sit down with marketing strategist, Lisa Larter.
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Episode 132: Risk/Reward
How to determine the odds of success and the important nature of your attitude.
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Episode 131: The Objectification of Women
Straddling the third rail to raise points about hypocrisy in some choices.
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Episode 130: The Invasion of the Grievance Monsters
Wherein everyone demands everyone else's attention for every minor inconvenience, ending civilization as we know it.
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Episode 129: They Shot The Bolt
An independent view of why the Democrats just may be out of ammunition.
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Episode 128: How Can You Help Others?
Discussing how we can be of comprehensive help in these times and all times.
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Episode 127: Super Bore
Why the Super Bowl has become an almost mindless ritual despite the quality of play on the field.
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Episode 126: Coronavirus
Why are we afraid of an illness that won't harm most of us but not of an illness that will kill 70,000 of us in the US alone annually?
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Episode 125: Cobwebs in the Constitution
How a legislature full of multi-term attorneys is killing us and why we should send them out to harvest crops.
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Episode 124: Unassertiveness
Why we back up instead of move forward and what it means to have the courage of your talent.
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Episode 123: Life and Death Struggle
How the news media and reporters distort fact for drama, trying to make the mundane magnificent.
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Episode 122: Skate to Where the Puck Will Be
Why Wayne Gretzky had it right and and the rest of us keep saying, "What the puck?"
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Episode 121: Inexplicable Errors
Why lies and fabrications stick to our histories like glue, and why we provide the glue.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 120: What Criminal Designed the Prisons?
Our prisons would reflect a depraved society to anyone coming from another world and wondering how we can treat people this way.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 119: Critics
Why they're important some of the time only, and the worst, most dangerous critic of all.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 118: Why We Believe
Sometimes it's hard to believe what we choose to believe, and here's why.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 117: Limited Responses
Why it's negligent not to be ready for the most common responses.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 116: Financial CYA
How banks disregard the customer and why they should be run like hospitality organizations.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 115: The Ugly Side
Those aspects of humanity from which we should all learn some lessons.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 114: Vietnam
Being a description of a place I once tried to avoid and have no need to return to.