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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
• Plastic cup lids that pop off and spill all over you.
• Cheap plastic water bottle with tiny, cheap caps that you twist, squeeze the bottle, and it squirts all over you.
• European bottle caps that are connected and hit you in the nose or the eye.
• Cheap straws that rip or break up.
• European insanity about air conditioning.
• Only 43% of US households participate in recycling where it's available, and only 21% of potential is actually recovered. Bottom line, only 5-9% of residential plastic recycling potential is actually recycled, and the rest remains as plastic waste.
• Drucker's rule about laws resulting from a single person's actions.
8Electric battery fires are extremely hard to extinguish.
• They card me for a beer at Fenway Park.
• When my wife's metal knees trigger the alert, even after she tells them, they check her for gunpowder residue.
• The CYA of banks ignoring their best customers and making them to conform to limits on remote deposits, ID checks with tellers, etc.
• Entering a theater they peak into bags which could still be hiding a bomb or hand grenade.
• No matter how great your chef is, you can't make a bad cut of cheap meat into a legitimate $50 entree.
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
