Bringing Shallowness to New Depths
Bringing Shallowness to New Depths
Meet Your Host, Alan Weiss
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.
Get to know AlanShow Notes
• More cheats, frauds, schemers, liars and thieves than ever in our perception. The turning point was internet access.
• Men's and women's sob stories are followed by glam shots.
• Drugs and gizmos for the aging are hyped until people get wise: tinnitus, incontinence, arthritis, hair loss, hearing decline, cognitive issues, constipation.
• Book deals for the ego needs of prospective and new authors.
• False identify for editors from major publishers.
• “Tricks” to bake cakes, seal pipes, preserve food, fix toilets.
• Phony endorsements from people who don't really exist.
• I told one scammer that he was obviously a foreign, spamming, scammer who had no quality and the intent was theft. He said, “I'm a citizen of the Czech Republic, why are you making this so personal?!”
• I can understand the elderly, perhaps, who lack proper advice and family, for falling for this stuff. But really, holding a metal object next to your ear to cure tinnitus?
• My doctors tell me too many people are self-diagnosing and coming in with preferred treatment suggestions.
• Vacations aren't fulfilled or people are left stranded or in run-down facilities.
• Of course, I could afford all of this if those Nigerians just delivered on the $5 million they found in my name in a Swiss deposit box, awaiting for US air mail.
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
