by Steven J. Manning | June 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
About Happiness in Business… Fortune 100 vs. Bill’s Burgers… This is about Bill’s Burgers. And some about too many Fortune notables’ leaders… Bill’s makes everybody’s list of “The Best Burgers in the United States.” Often on the top...
by Steven J. Manning | May 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
You gotta love Starbucks…. “There is a fine line between love and hate.” — Cecelia Ahern, c. 2002-2005. I used to really dislike Starbucks. Upon recent reflection … Salvador Dali, unmistakable mustache on full display, walks into a Starbucks. Eureka moment...
by Steven J. Manning | April 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
From awareness to intelligence to zombiehood… I am tackling a truly challenging topic. Emotional intelligence. Now … Assuming I have even a pedestrian understanding of what that is… Assuming that I do have some ordinary, lay, understanding of what emotional...
by Steven J. Manning | April 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Be uber at sales. Absolute “do’s” and “don’ts.” All of that is built on a bedrock concept. NOTHING HAPPENS UNTIL YOU SELL SOMETHING. That is my take on something Henry Ford said a lot of decades ago. Allow me a couple minutes...
by Steven J. Manning | February 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
This continues to be an embarrassment of riches. If you are plugged into the news, as we at the INFLUENCER are some twenty-four hours a day, you may have some trepidation in taking a deep breath. Certainly, while you do that, the world will have changed! And not in...
by Steven J. Manning | February 3, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
This topic is a big challenge. Only because is it truly an embarrassment of riches. The world around us is moving at a rate of change that is simply vertiginous. The rate of advancements in innovation with technology as its offspring, is as exhilarating as it is...
by Steven J. Manning | December 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
I have led an experience-rich life. Millions of life miles. And the same in those amazing, pressurized sardine cans. I fancy myself an astute observer of people and life. As the smart folks I work with in my public life wrote: Some people collect stamps, memorabilia,...
by Steven J. Manning | December 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Jim Tunney. Marking the passing of an amazing man. Green-lighted some of my future as a very young man, when most others would have turned away. Tears For The Righteous By Steven J. Manning From ashes, dust to dust, or, or equivalents of that in perhaps yours, The...
by Steven J. Manning | October 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Bemelmans Bar Sweet, pungent, intoxicating, elegant blend of cigar smoke, expensive perfumes, exclusive men’s colognes. How that 53-year-old bar should smell. And the unforgettable crooning and sophisticated banter of the one and only, tuxedoed Bobby Short. A...
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