Cornerstones features the writings of Jennifer StJohn and the Fusion Group editorial team. Enjoy these insightful and engaging essays for a different take on business, life and the pursuit of success and serenity.
Management Rocks
Bancalero or Bricklayer?
Spanish Olive Groves on Majorcan terraced hillsides – held in place by stone walls of ancient design. No mortar in sight, these weathered walls (also seen on buildings and homes in the towns) serve to contain groves, lives and businesses behind uniquely patterned curtains of stone which quietly endure the centuries.
The Blues, Pattern Recognition and Fusion’s “Ready, Set, Go!®”
“You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant.
You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant.
Walk right in, it’s around the back.
Just a half mile from the railroad tracks.
You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant.”
– Arlo Guthrie
American Songwriter and Singer
(1947 – )
Life is a Game
“The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil-Rights Leader
(1929 – 1968)
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Madness & The Moon
“The sage points at the moon.
The student sees only the finger.”
—Taoist Proverb
“I don’t wish to go among mad people!” said Alice,
“You really can’t help that,” said the Cheshire Cat, “because most everyone is.”
— Alice Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Endless, Cheerful, Repeated Coaching
“Man, you gotta have your head in the game every second of every play. You doze for a second, and the other guys are all over you and that’s the down, the quarter and the whole game. Too many games, and your career is done!”
—NFC Playoff Team Member
If a football team went a week without being intensely coached about the opposition, the
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