Predictions
Predictions
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Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker, and author and mean it.
His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation, Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times Corporation, Toyota, and over 500 other leading organizations. He has served on several boards of directors in various capacities.
His prolific publishing includes over 500 articles and 60 books, including his best-seller, Million Dollar Consulting (from McGraw-Hill) now in its 30th year and sixth edition. His newest is Your Legacy is Now: Life is not about a search for meaning but the creation of meaning (Routledge, 2021). His books have been on the curricula at Villanova, Temple University, and the Wharton School of Business, and have been translated into 15 languages.
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Predictions
• Both wars will run out of steam and end, officially or unofficially.
• There will be insurrections in Iran.
• Neither the Dodgers, nor the Celtics, nor the Chiefs will repeat.
• Electric car requirements and limits on ICEs will be lifted or eased.
• Retinal scanning and fingerprints will allow many to circumvent TSA.
• Attempts to copyright and/or trademark AI composites of text and images will eventually reach the Supreme Court.
• A betting scandal will rock professional sports.
• As China’s economy weakens it will engage in more limited military actions against Taiwan.
• Universities will face a perfect storm: AI will enable cheating and plagiarism, students and parents will revolt against huge tuitions, government forgiveness of tuition debt will end, there will be attempts to fire tenured professors who teach radical and biased political views, and large cuts will have to be made. The biggest threat: Remote learning which will dramatically lower tuition and enable a greater choice of institutions.
• As the population ages and the Millennials rise in business, the country becomes more conservative and centrist in its views and voting.
• There will be more intensive recruiting and higher pay for police officers.
• Two more members of Congress will be indicted for corruption.
• The Taylor Swift phenomenon will begin to wane.
• The largest contribution to population growth in the US will be from legal immigrants.
• Hacking will accelerate, and will include all kinds of organizations. The government will grant immunity to convicted hackers to help them combat other hackers.
• The smart Democrats will realize that it wasn’t that “their message didn’t get out,” but rather that most people didn’t like the message.
• Not a prediction, but a wish: Term limits for all of Congress so we can finally end the incestuous power grabbing that has undermined progress for the people.
• Happy New Year.
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.
Introduction to the show recorded by Connie Dieken
