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Contrarian Consulting | Alan's Blog - Architect of Professional
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April 25th, 2024
People become obsessive when things are free ..read more
Contrarian Consulting | Alan's Blog - Architect of Professional
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When you’re facing a client quandary, don’t ask how to save your project or make more money. Ask yourself what’s best for the client. That’s why we should be in this business ..read more
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Episode 341 | April 25, 2024
A Conversation with Al McCree
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Al McCree is an entertainment entrepreneur, President of Musical Concepts Inc., Al McCree Entertainment and the Comedy with Class Network. His companies are actively involved in concert promotion and digital distribution of artists and products. He is also a professional speaker.
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Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker, and author and mea ..read more
Contrarian Consulting | Alan's Blog - Architect of Professional
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April 24th, 2024
A lot of you are losing business or not making progress because you don’t go by TDA ..read more
Contrarian Consulting | Alan's Blog - Architect of Professional
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It’s not unusual for a professional sports league to admit after a game and review, that officials made errors in not making the right calls. Some of these affected the outcome of the game, including playoff and championship games. Those calls and the results have never been retroactively reversed to my knowledge.
The same holds true in our businesses and lives. “Upon review,” we find we were wronged, or not acknowledged, or misunderstood through no fault of our own. There is no cosmic accountant up in the ethos with sleeve protectors and a visor in charge of rebalancing the injustice.
T ..read more
Contrarian Consulting | Alan's Blog - Architect of Professional
2d ago
April 23rd, 2024
Can you imagine a comedian who’s not funny ..read more
Contrarian Consulting | Alan's Blog - Architect of Professional
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People don’t seem to realize that it’s too late to take preventive action about climate degradation. We’re in contingent action now, whether we like it or not.
We need fire-resistant, flood-resistant, tornado-resistant homes. (We already have earthquake-resistant.) We need to prohibit building on coastlines and in forests, and stop insuring those who do so anyway.
(Ironically, we try to “cure” cancer instead of preventing it, when we should be doing just the opposite. We seem to have cause and effect pretty screwed up.)
When a fire occurs, you don’t post more “no smoking” signs or se ..read more
Contrarian Consulting | Alan's Blog - Architect of Professional
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April 22nd, 2024
Here’s an important debate ..read more
Contrarian Consulting | Alan's Blog - Architect of Professional
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To “anthropomorphize” is to project human qualities and traits onto animals, plants, and inanimate objects. Children do it to make sense of surroundings they otherwise can’t interpret. But adults do it fairly consistently, too, but for other reasons. (I’m discussing this with my white, German Shepherd, Royce, as I’m contemplating the next paragraph.)
Please admit you engage is this, as I do, so that we can have an honest discussion. (I’m asking my computer right now why it seems slower this morning.)
One net result of this mental pursuit is that it alleviates loneliness. It provides for a ..read more
Contrarian Consulting | Alan's Blog - Architect of Professional
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Some things are important for the world around us, and some things are highly pleasurable and motivating. When those exist concurrently, we have a “calling” or an especially rewarding career. It doesn’t have to be lofty. Some people love carpentry work and construction, and it’s an important skill for society. Some are doctors and attorneys, or consultants and coaches. However, we’ve all met people in such positions who aren’t especially happy. When the job is important but there is no passion about it you have a “grind” or simply a “nine-to-five” job, or a “workaholic” attitude.
When there is ..read more