Observations stripped of philosophy and sentiment. Hard-edged pragmatism delivered with cynicism, alarm, and occasional amusement.
CULTURAL SENSITIVITY IS NEITHER SOUGHT NOR SPARED
SOME ENTRIES LAND WITH DELIBERATE, ACUTE DISPLEASURE.
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February 3, 2025.
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 frightening. It is truly unsettling that essentially we do not have ethical, moral, intellectual, social, political and financial constructs to support that. Innovation and, thus, technology, have always galloped well ahead of those constructs. Humbly, the editors of the INFLUENCER have been on the leading edge of technology for decades. Artificial...
Steven J. Manning is an internationally known business leader, author, public speaker, broadcaster and principal advisor to many multinational leading enterprises and brands. He is a founder, CEO, Principal, General Manager and Board Member of a number of businesses in the US and Europe.
In addition to owned and operated enterprises, he has generated tens of billions of dollars in revenue in broad-spectrum consumer products and services, and principal consultative endeavors for over 70 major US and multi-national market leaders, including Fortune 20 companies.
He writes and speaks on success, advertising, marketing, conflict resolution, writing, leadership, politics, social constructs, history, technology and more.
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