What Does Scott Galloway Get Right?

Precious little. I hear anyone familiar mutter.

You want to like this guy. Successfully starting more than one business. Making the money of dreams. Living it large. He certainly does have, as they say today, a platform.

Yet his schtick - at best Centrist Dad, at worst, well, search if you dare - can often be difficult to warm to in delivery, tone and message.

Yet like a broken clock, can he be on occasion, correct?

He has a book out. Parts memoir, life instructional and policy bones for the under-served which steadfastly omit elephants in rooms. So is on the PR trail. About to decamp from a sojourn in London and move back to America, a local broadsheet helpfully précis a few key messages from his tome.

Away from general life skills banality of the up-and-at-'em variety, a trio with adjacent business angles did sparkle.

That's not to say get out and about is not sound advice. It's that there are so many sources of such that the essential thrust can be lost. As messianic zeal from an overwhelming volume of preachers all too often moves into misleading, nonsensical or downright darker and troublesome areas.

Where he insists your abode is solely for sleep, the match-up inside our work routine cannot be under-estimated. 'The amount of time you spend at home is inversely correlated to your success'.

The fear of failure is indeed an ogre in Sales. Yes there can be what feel insurmountable issues, yet the world really does love a try-er. It's incredible what can happen when you find a door ajar. And they do exist. Your best stories can come from messing up when selling. So what? They're also what power your eventual success. 'Shame and fear of embarrassment often hold people back from leading a better life'.

In typically forthright American fashion, he describes his own boss mode formerly as akin to an 'a-hole'. Below is the paragraph on this as printed. Sprouting from specific example of never being on time. I. Hate. That. At least he now acknowledges such error. Kudos there. Ensure we don't fall into the same hole. And when confronted by a prospect indulging in such, always call them out.