Character
Character
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
- Defined as moral and mental qualities; strengths and reputation.
- It’s a matter of self-worth, or esteem, of personal dignity.
- Also a matter of our willingness to help others, to have an abundance and not a scarcity mentality.
- It’s a quiet confidence, not braggadocio.
- It’s legitimate and earned, not bogus or borrowed.
- The lessons of the Ritz-Carlton.
- It’s also with whom we choose to spend our time.
- It’s refusing to cheat at golf but trying to cheat in football.
- There is the issue of cause and not blame.
- There is innate respect for others and not envy or acrimony.
- You give back the mistaken, excess change.
- Entire cultures can lack character.
- The ongoing struggle of politicians to remain in power undermines character.
- Yet this is an age of obfuscation, of mistrust, of deep fakes and phony news.
- Thinking peoples with opposing views are somehow morally inferior is reflective of poor character.
- Intolerance is an absence of character.
- “Character” is also about occupying a role, being performative.
- Are you real, or just playing a character in your own illusion of reality?
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
