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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
•Let's stop the hypocrisy around this affair.
•This goes on all over, government, business, education.
•I've seen it, many people know the “secret.”
•The foolishness is the arrogance that you think it's a secret.
•But the attempts at shadenfreude are ludicrous.
•Who's pointing the finger? People who have cheated on exams, broken traffic laws, evaded taxes, blamed others for their corrupt behavior, lied on applications, snuck into events, bragged about things that never happened, and covered up things that did.
•People reveling in the pain of two people who now have broken marriages and broken homes.
•A man died a week ago with whose politics a woman on Facebook disagreed and said his death “made the word a better place.”
•What kind of sick behavior is that? It's low self-esteem.
•We've all done things we're not proud of, and some of us are remorseful. That's what the confessional is for, or Yom Kippur, or your therapist, or a serious, soul-searching hike up a mountain.
•If others learning of a transgression were able to learn from it, okay. But to use it sanctimoniously, to mount the high horse and seek the higher moral ground? That's just juvenile.
•It was their fault (my disrespect is for the guy who is now suing Cold Play as if they did something wrong. They warned about the cameras and no one has the right to expect privacy at a public event).
•My advice is to heed Jesus about those without sin casting the first stone. But of course we're supposed to value secularism today, not religion, not the admonishment to treat others as you'd like them to treat you.
•Better pack a first aid kit, though, because that high horse can give you quite a nose bleed.
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
