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.
About as Far as We Can Go!
The Experience of Disruption
1985
The Chairman:
So you think we need to manage our own Brand Identity?
But we’re great! We’re about the biggest thing in this business!
Isn’t it enough that we make great advertising?
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“It’s not binary! You can be gifted and decent at the same time!”
(Woz, talking with Steve)
Steve Jobs…the Movie
Perhaps the most significant (and insidiously unnoticed) flaw in our over-stressed, hyper-analytical existence is the pernicious tendency to
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Creating Empty & Full
“You must empty a box before you can fill it.”
—Irish Proverb
From our perspective, excellent communication is about sending Empty and Full into your conversations as equal partners.
For example: you looked
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Quadraphonic Blaupunkt
Crash: “You’re pissing your whole life away!”
Nuke: “I ain’t pissing nothing away! I got a Porsche already, a 911 with a quadraphonic Blaupunkt!”
Crash: “Christ, you don’t need a quadraphonic Blaupunkt. What you need is a Curve Ball! In the Show, everybody can hit heat!”
“Crash” Davis speaks with “Nuke” LaLoosh in Bull Durham
So, you’re hot! Got a job, a house payment, a leased car, maybe a family. And you’re working at a big shop…
The Will to Command
Self-abnegation
Noun
1. Self-renunciation — renunciation of one’s own interests in favor of others.
2. Self-abnegation — the act of denying, sacrificing, giving up something in favor of others.
3. Self-sacrifice — acting with less concern for self than for the success of the joint activity.
Lately,
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