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Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®

Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®

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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.All rights reserved Scienze sociali
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  • Entitlement

    Entitlement
    Jul 16 2026
    SHOW NOTES: Do we have toxic workplaces or toxic employees who make workplaces harmful and unhealthy? Are we terminally entitled? I found that there was no safety net for me, being born and raised in a poor family. I mean damaged furniture, stained rugs, bill collectors on the phone. When I was being beaten up by the neighborhood tough guy, my father, leaning out the window, told me to fight my way out of it. Many years later a therapist told me that was my father's bad, not mine. Whatever. So I learned to be smart to stay out of fights, to get along with teachers right through grad school. They looked kindly on me as not being a troublemaker and gave me the benefit of the doubt when I was. I was never looking for a safety net below, I was looking for another handhold above. I free-climbed the El Capitan of life. When I was fired, I got angry, not distraught, and determined to be my own boss and to own, not be employed. I realized that my life was my responsibility. I was happy later to support both my kids (no college debt) and our parents (no rent, medical bills taken care of, assisted living provided). I was the safety net, and happy to be one. Let's stop bitching and moaning and demanding that everyone else change because our every little requirement is not being met. Life IS unfair, so deal with it. We're entitled to an equal starting line and level playing field, but not to an equal finish. That's determined by talent and discipline and accountability. Even if you successfully blame someone else, you haven't improved your condition. And you're probably not going to receive the help you need. If I've found one thing to be true in 40 years of consulting and coaching, it's that you can't help anyone who doesn't want to be truly helped, as opposed to just receiving a handout. If you're not willing to help yourself, why should anyone else try to help you?
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    5 min
  • Survey This

    Survey This
    Jul 9 2026
    SHOW NOTES: Have you noticed the increase in surveys from hotels, airlines, online retailers, and even medical practices? These are usually accompanied by requests for ratings on the internet. This is related to "calls being recorded for quality purposes." If anyone really listened to the calls, we'd have a lot better services. Even restrooms have a computer screen asking how clean the place was. I really don't want to touch it with my finger. Why not take care of my service problems while I'm experiencing them, not asking about how bad they've been after the fact? I think many of these are a pretense for actually caring. They try to cheaply overcome the unhappiness of customers with a false promise to improve, when they are actually just a vent for unhappiness with no obligation to improve. Executives have "executive assistants" so that they don't have to personally respond to calls and emails, even though they claim to lead "customer-driven" operations. I love the representatives who tell you, "You'll receive a survey after this call, and I'd appreciate your giving me a strong rating." You'll always receive one of these after every Uber trip, along with the tip suggestion. I'm told that Uber drivers rate their customers, as well, and those customers who have given low ratings aren't responded to as rapidly as those who've given high ratings. I don't know if that's true, but I would suspect it is. Please don't rate this podcast. But then again, no one is asking you to do so.
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    3 min
  • Bigger Isn't Better

    Bigger Isn't Better
    Jul 2 2026
    SHOW NOTES: The Super Bowl halftime show; the World Cup; the Masters championship; the US Open Tennis championship; the Oscars; July 4th; Christmas lights; gender reveals; children's birthday parties; destination weddings. Things don't have to get bigger to get better. In fact, the promise of "bigger and better" leads to expectations that can't be met OR exaggeratedly high response to mediocrity to justify the cost of attendance, real or remote. A thousand people marching around a field while someone lip-syncs a song isn't all that impressive. Pre-game, half-time, and post-game analyses by a panel of "experts" just adds talk, not insight. Gender reveals are nonsense and now the trend of mass wedding party dancing as an opening to the ceremony is as boring as running into the same caterer at every fundraising event. You can be married underwater with a jellyfish band for all I care, it doesn't make your love for each other any different in my mind, though it doesn't affect my impression of you self-absorption. Try for quality, not quantity, and certainly not volume.
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    2 min
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