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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 53: Teachers' Unions
When the student isn't seen as the customer the student isn't served well, and neither are we.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 52: Presentism II
Was Columbus a good guy or not? Should we play Wagner's music, even though he was an anti-Semite? Can you be an outstanding talent and also a lousy person?
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 51: Who Guards the Guardians?
Wherein we examine who can curtail the power of those who exert unfair and inappropriate power by dint of their positions.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 50: Going Through the Motions
Why action is often meaningless and words are illusory.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 49: Why We Eat Our Young
The endemic cynicism and pessimism of so many people remind me of alligators who habitually eat their own offspring.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 48: Talent and Numbers
If you don't have a critical mass, you're not going to find critical talent.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 47: Napoleon Hill and I
This podcast discusses my indirect association with Napoleon Hill through my old boss, and why thinking alone won't make you rich.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 46: The Humility Myth
Humility is NOT a desirable trait for professionals because no customer, client, or consumer screams out for a humble surgeon.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 45: Who's That Knocking?
Awards are a dime a dozen, but acknowledgment can mean all the difference in the world.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 44: The Great Fork in the Road
You can take a fork or ignore a fork, you have to choose a side.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 43: The Limits of Technology
Episode 43: The Limits of Technology by Alan Weiss
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 42: Negotiating with Time
Time is a priority, not a resource. You can no more negotiate with it than you can with a hurricane.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 41: Introspection
Why spending time examining who you really are and what your calling is can ruin your life.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 40: The Lobster Principle
How a crustacean can demonstrate positive traits for all of us by being vulnerable.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 39: Shut It Down
Wherein government might be improved if those making the laws were subject to the consequences of those laws.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 38: I Suffer, Therefore I Am
How suffering has become the proof of existence and why we all need to reflect back on Descartes.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 37: A Lifetime of Negative Feedback
How to break out of the martyr role and demand support from those around you.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 36: Eradicating History
How do we deal with cardinal sins and venial sins? Do we take all accusations seriously?
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 35: Fiji
Why there is no direct correlation between success and happiness, at least in the Pacific.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 34: Damage
Don't default to believing others are damaged or they'll think the same of you.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 33: The Secret
The secret of success that is within us but is too often abused instead of used.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 32: Presentism
Why we shouldn't be applying contemporary beliefs to historical events and we'd be a lot lighter if we put the stones down.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 31: Vulgarity
How we are dulling our senses and ruining our meaning. WARNING: Profanity is used throughout for examples.
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Episode 30: The Discipline of Learning
How we're not preparing our kids for the basic learning that many of us were prepared for in simpler times.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 29: Why Are We So Threatened?
The reasons for and means to escape going through your life defensively and scared.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 28: The Sublime Failure
Fear of failure is fear of living, so let's come to grips with why we've failed and whether it matters or not.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 27: Dragged Up The Aisle
United may have been obvious, but you are being dragged up the aisle daily by a variety of public and private organizations.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 26: Driver's Ed
Don't tell me you don't have any faith when you drive on the highway with people all around you steering deadly weapons.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 25: Conspiracies
Why people see hidden dangers all around them, and why that's crazy.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 24: Bureaucracy
Learn why too many people focus on the task and not the result, hear about some scary examples, and understand how you can avoid it yourself.
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Episode 23: The End of the iPhone
We're not really using a phone, are we?
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 22: Agendas
An "agenda" is no longer a harmless work aid. Find out why.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 21: Believing
Wherein Alan discusses that we all believe in something, and we're not random biological mechanisms.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 20: Annoying People
There are annoying people, and we shouldn't be ashamed to point that out.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 19: An F for Public Schools
The looming societal crisis if we don't improve our kids' chances in a broken system.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 18: Improving Performance
How to help others to improve, and how to easily measure performance without surveys, evaluations, and voodoo.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 15: Who Loves You?
Why all of us require unconditional support at times and why it's so difficult to obtain it.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 17: Get Rich Quick
The uncomfortable truth about "multi-level marketing" and other Ponzi schemes.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 16: No You Can't
Some lessons in why your telling yourself you can might wind up in finding out why you can't.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 14: Contrarianism
Why taking an opposite view is a public service and how to do it.
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Episode 13: Selecting
We "settle" instead of deliberately choosing what's best for us, and we need to stop that.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 12: Degradation
How standards begin to erode and what we can do to correct it.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 11: Overprotection
The cosseting of youth, and how it's leaving them vulnerable in the real world.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 10: Overkill
Pounding away until the point is crushed under the weight of redundancy.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 9: Denial
Why we make ostriches' behavior in the face of threat seem reasonable.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 8: Conservatism
Why we are far too timid in our lives and work and how to stop playing a "prevent defense."
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 7: The Aggrieved
Why whatever you perceive your condition to be does not warrant a vote in Congress or a newscast.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 6: Polarization
The vast, ignorant error in believing people who disagree with you are stupid.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 5: Myths
A memorial service to the many friends you lost when they went swimming 55 minutes after having lunch.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 4: Marketing Magic
A manifesto on marketing‹and buying‹realities and why usage trumps functionality.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 3: Fear Not
Roosevelt was right, and we ought to stop being frightened by everything that goes bump in the night.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 2: Energy
How the Second Law of Thermodynamics can erode your business and your life if you donąt renew yourself.
Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®Episode 1: Control
How to maximize control of your life and not surrender your future.