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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.

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00:29:35

A Conversation with Al McCree

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/04/25

Al McCree is a former fighter pilot who has flown 196 missions! He is an executive in the music business and has managed all kinds of talent. He’s also worked with top business executives. We talk about the differences and similarities of combat flying and the competition of the music business and the challenges of changing hearts and minds in a business setting. Ironically Al thinks music can be a distraction at work, even though we see so many people with ear buds in all kinds of workplaces. I

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00:11:38

How I'd Change Education

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/04/18

Primary and secondary1 End the “warehousing” of children • Chronology is silly and hundreds of years old • Socialization is important, but not at this cost • Move kids as they learn • Measure learning by outcomes: application, tests, etc. 2. Stop defaulting to college educations • Prepare for a range of employment opportunities • I sat next to too many duds in college • Teach life skills: civics, account management, do-it-yourself repairs (remember shop and home economics) • Growing tendency to

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00:10:03

Conspiracies

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/04/11

Not just about the government or the banks or big Pharma, but even sports when YOUR team loses! “The refs were crooked, it was rigged.”9/11 was an “inside” job, and we never landed on the moon. Key elements: belief in a pattern underlying the event; provocative and deliberate plans; coalitions or groups are involved, even disparate ones; there is a clear and present danger; secrecy that is hard to justify or believe by non-conspirators. Groups blamed are typical targets: wealthy, politicians,

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00:09:11

Pressure

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/04/04

The more pressure you feel, the more your talent is “masked” and the worse you perform. You control pressure.You can’t allow yourself to feel “judged” every time you speak, write, or perform. And when and if you do need feedback, never accept it from unsolicited sources, which is always for the sender’s benefit, not yours. Seek solicited feedback from trusted people you respect. It’s fine to feel anticipation and eagerness to proceed, which should heighten your performance, but not fear and dread

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00:10:10

Skechers

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/03/28

Do you need shoes that you can put on without touching them, without bending down, without even sitting down? Barring those whose illnesses or conditions prohibit bending, just how lazy are the rest of us becoming?Skechers sells some shoes which have a patented device near the top of the heel that allows you to slip into them without manipulating the shoe: no shoehorn, no wiggling, no close proximity at all. (Of course, you have to have the mental capacity to know your toes go in first.) I can

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00:11:22

Control

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/03/21

Some things we can control, some we can influence, and some we can neither control nor influence. It’s important to understand the differences, and it’s vital to never cede control nor underestimate our abilities to control.Facing a prospect for the first time, what do you think you can control, influence, or affect neither? (Listen to the podcast to hear the examples.) Do you tend to surrender control because the prospect is powerful or wealthy? Do you sacrifice personal time, change important

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00:11:44

Electric

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/03/14

We’re going to need tens of millions of electric charging stations to satisfy goals for electric cars in six years set by the government. It looks like we might have 500,000. Electric cars might represent zero carbon footprint improvement. The mining of lithium is dirty and expensive and requires a lot of energy. Disposal of the batteries presents similar problems. Fires are a danger and are harder to extinguish. Hertz is returning or cancelling orders for a thousand electric vehicles because

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00:04:46

Quantity Over Quality

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/03/07

I send out• Daily video • Monthly video • Weekly podcast • Monthly newsletter • Weekly newsletter • Blog 7 days publicly • Blog 7 days to community • Post on X 7 times per week • Post on LinkiedIn 3 times per week • Send out monthly promo piece That’s 1,651 potential contact points with clients and prospects annually That’s why I receive unsolicited referrals and purchases People can always unsubscribe, I’m never offended How long does this take me: Total is three hours a week or half

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00:07:19

The Post-Pandemic Blues

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/02/29

The pandemic is a milestone event. Even if the medical effects have been ameliorated (which is debatable), the social impact is huge and continuing. Some of the evidence:• Some people continuing to wear masks, which also serve as a “warning” to others, and is an extreme behavior if one isn’t otherwise medically compromised. Covid transmission interpersonally would require someone in very close proximity for an extended period of time. Also, masks prompt people to keep touching their faces, which

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00:32:11

A Conversation with Jeffrey Magee

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/02/22

Jeff is the publisher of Performance Magazine which has featured interviews of and articles from people as diverse as Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Shaquille O’Neal, Sir Richard Branson, Joan Rivers, and Larry King, among hundreds of others.In this conversation we talk about the effectiveness, and lack thereof, of the media; the major issues on the minds of executives post-pandemic; how to convince people to accept an interview even if they haven’t heard of you or the publication; and why Jeff,

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00:11:37

Rudy Giuliani

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/02/15

I’ve met Rudy Giuliani. We belonged to the same cigar club in New York (which has since lost its lease). Those were the days when he was still in the afterglow of “America’s Mayor” from the way he led after 9/11. And those were the days when crime in New York was way down. He and the police commissioner, Bill Bratton, instituted tough approaches to “minor” violations, believing they would lead to arrests and halting of major violations. So there were penalties for blocking intersections (today in

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00:35:37

A Conversation with Noah Kagan II

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/02/08

How do you create a million dollar idea and begin earning on it in one weekend? Noah Kagan is one of my buddies and a guy I greatly admire. He’s founded and sold several multi-million dollar enterprises—and readily admits to his share of failures, as well—and he’s put together an approach, summarized in Million Dollar Weekend, which is a clear recipe for success. I know about how to make millions of dollars in consulting, for example. Noah has accelerated that process for most of you. He makes

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00:05:09

Irritations

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/02/01

Isn’t Starbucks just a tad affected when the have “baristas” and sizes like grande and venti and trenta and Huey, Dewey, and Louie? Is it possible not to want to body slam a “barista” who informs you they don’t like to put whole milk in a cappuccino because of “poor frothing”? I saw a couple enter a diner for breakfast carrying takeout Starbucks coffee. That level of self-absorption can cause implosion. When it’s ten degrees with a wind-chill of minus 15, why do women in skirts and dresses have

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00:07:09

Discipline

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/01/25

One of the major issues with a lack of success is that people don’t hold themselves accountable. They fail to meet deadlines, fail to fulfill obligations. They put more work into making excuses than they would have doing the actual work. The old “dog ate my homework” is now “there was traffic,” “we have child care issues,” “my internet was down.” There are no consequences for our failing our own accountabilities, and no rewards for meeting them. I’ll get around to it, unless I decide not

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00:10:12

Suits

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/01/18

If you want to see writing exhaustion, this is the series. After two pretty decent seasons, the show devolved through the ensuing six as if the writers had become deprived of oxygen. Every time someone knocks on a door, the response is, “What are you doing here?” It’s not, “Good to see you,” or “How can I help you?”, or “Are you lost?” People discussing matters in a private office are interrupted with a solution or dramatic new information by a colleague simply traipsing in from the halls. There

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00:08:06

Healthcare

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/01/11

• We’re seeing huge changes in healthcare. • About 25% of patients used telehealth last year, far exceeding the 5% who accessed care this way before the pandemic. • Pharmacies with physicians present (like pet stores with vets present) • Physicians in private practice greatly reduced. • The share of doctors who worked in practices wholly owned by physicians fell from 60.1% to 46.7% from 2012 to 2022. • More people seeing nurse practitioners • From 2016 to 2021, the number of primary care

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00:11:34

How to Improve Your Profits

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2024/01/04

• Cut your expenses: virtual assistants, subscription software, subcontracting (even in the Philippines). • Move work to the client. • Focus on advisory work, not project work. • Increase number of sales. • Increase amount of sales. • Increase duration of client relationships. • Increase solicited referrals. • Create community evangelism. • Produce new products and services for existing clients. • Reduce marketing expenses. • Reduce time waste (internet). • Stop overdelivering/providing what wasn’t

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00:12:57

Overdone

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2023/12/28

When you have a great talent on stage, do we really need dancers, other singers, flashing lights, and magic tricks? What does Starbucks gain giving us all those choices in its own strange language? Have you ever noticed how visitors from Europe are astonished at the size and number of our restaurant dinner courses? Have you ever tried to quickly find something in a car’s owner’s manual? Can you read all the menu options at Dunkin’ Donuts drive through window before the person in the car behind you

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00:08:31

Lowering Higher Education

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2023/12/21

•The American Council on Education reports that 33% of universities and colleges have female presidents. • In the Ivy League it’s six of eight. Several for the first time ever. • The three women in front of the congressional committee were clearly over their heads, ill prepared, stunned, and soon reversed some of their testimony. • We’re focused on identity, not talent. • Boards used to seek academic excellence and a track record of outstanding leadership. • Now they want the first woman, or

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00:06:01

Profanity

Alan Weiss"s The Uncomfortable Truth® ·

2023/12/14

I find the use of profanity is the last resort for the inarticulate. It’s supposed to be “daring” and “shocking” but it’s actually just lazy. I sometimes surf through the comedy channels and hear standup comedians simply repeating m…..f….. over and over. There is no intellect there, and intellect and pain are actually the basis for almost all real comedy. Putting profanity on a book cover is boring, but it beats trying to come up with an appealing title. But most alarmingly, it’s simply entered the

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