The Schism
The Schism
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
• Parents and kids were united in what was watched, experiences, and enjoyed in the early 50s. Gunsmoke, Soupy Sales, MASH, Bonanza, Sink the Bismark.
• Then came Dick Clark and American Bandstand.
• The 60s saw the Beatles, Sex/Drugs/Rock and Roll.
• Viet Nam and campus occupations.
• A man on the moon.
• Assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King.
• Woodstock.
• The Cuban Missile Crisis.
• The Schism has evolved into polarization.
• We don't trust each other anymore.
• We feel entitled. (You can't give an activist enough, ever.)
• What can unite? Comedy, trust, tolerance, art, forgiveness?
• Unlike climate change, which is highly existential, this is immediate and grave. This is a threat that we need to handle now.
• The alternative is chaos.
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
