by Steven J. Manning | September 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
I wrote this “love-note” to the CEO of a major department store chain. You, my readers, know who they are. Perhaps even shop there. I pursued his senior staff to do business with my agency. That, notwithstanding admonishment from an occasional friend, a long-time and...
by Steven J. Manning | August 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
“OWN THE ROOM” AND ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS. Some of us believe, at least we think that we can exhibit solid impromptu alacrity all the time. That we are exceptionally quick thinkers, particularly when leveraging our competencies. We are proverbially quick on...
by Steven J. Manning | May 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
SUSTAINABILITY An intellectual compost as old as fossil fuels. By Steven J. Manning May 17, 2024 So many experts, real and self-anointed, and hapless talking heads, writing and spewing copious word-salads about sustainability. Occasionally stuff beyond ordinary and...
by Steven J. Manning | March 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
This from Selwyn Gerber, Chairman & Chief Strategist at RVW WEALTH. CURRENT STATUS: Silicon Valley Bank’s failure on Friday afternoon left the business and financial industries scrambling in uncertainty. Many companies who had tens or hundreds of millions of...
by Steven J. Manning | January 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth. How has that phenomenally dumb concept endured since John Heywood uttered those thoughtless words in 1546! Well, don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth unless you want a very large, feed-guzzling-aged- pet. And likely good sized...
by Steven J. Manning | January 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
In all my professional and personal travels — a million both “life-miles” and also in those amazing pressurized flying machines — I have had the privilege to exchange much with internationallyrecognized luminaries and public figures in business, academia, publishing...
by Steven J. Manning | January 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Excerpts from an interview published in AUTHORITY MAGAZINE… From an objective standpoint, we are living in an unprecedented era of abundance. Yet so many of us are feeling unsatisfied. Why are we seemingly so insatiable? Do you feel that marketing has led to...
by Steven J. Manning | August 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Statistically, business leaders read four- five books a month. There are 20,000 books in print on leadership. Most make a yeoman’s effort to define leadership. Often by contrasting that to management. Then, to add value to the droll reading, conflate the core of...
by Steven J. Manning | August 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Hatred of Jews, virulent antisemitism, is not a political, economic, social or anthropological belief grounded in facts. It is an entirely destructive ideology. The most enduring and irrepressible social pathology of all time. Antisemitism is endemic in many...
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