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.
We’re Back, After Hiatus.
Time for some changes.
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Many of our clients employ strict e-security measures — which eliminate our illustrations, formatting and list feedback. (For us, a little like preparing a great dinner and not knowing if it arrived on the table of the intended
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Creator/Consumer
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
— Muriel Rukeyser
Stories… We absorb them like oxygen. They fuel our curiosity, feed our upsets and our favored outrage. They form the substrate, the superstructure, even the skin of our lives. Often, they tell us who we are.
Lesson One
To Inform
To Entertain
To Persuade or Instruct
There are quite a few reasons for an appearance:
• A Campaign might require a Speech to INFORM people about the issues.
• A Show might require a Performance to ENTERTAIN people.
What’s with the Fork?
“There’s something to be said for quality!”
— R. Thomas
American Philosopher & Author
“It’s all about quality isn’t it?”
— Clement Meadmore
Australian-American Sculptor & Musician
Act One
Ignorance! with a side of Arrogance
“Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.”
—William Butler Yeats
Author, Poet, Nobel Laureate
1865 – 1939
A mid-thirties guy comes into the office, leans against a bronze sculpture, and (looking at his Seiko…) tugs on the exposed collar of his swabbie t-shirt, and says, “I’m really steamed about being ordered
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