Cornerstones (Blog)

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.

Echo Chamber

(Disconnect)

 

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire — then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn

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Wait a Bit


“How many things would you not have said, had you simply waited a bit…?”
—J. R. StJohn

 

Evidence for the existence of our somewhat less-than-completely-rational tendencies predominate in our daily lives — often in the form of our habit of reacting to provocation rather than to pause,

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Fish and Privilege

The Ethics Series


“A fish examines everything but the water in which it swims.”
— Marshall McLuhan

 

We simply aren’t fully aware of the privileged life we live in the office.

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Days and Nights in Hell


“Attachment is the very opposite of love.
Love says, ‘I want you to be happy.’
Attachment says, ‘I want you to make me happy.’”
—Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

 

Have you had one of those “Days or Nights in Hell” with an intimate partner, a family member or a close associate?

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One, Two, Three


“One, Two Three.
You got the rhythm show it!
You and Me. We can get on, I know it.
It’s easy! Like takin’ candy, from a baby…”

Len Barry — Leonard Borisoff
American Pop Singer & Songwriter
1942 —

 

 

Much heat has been generated over “Ready, Set, Go!®” In our thirty

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