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.
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.
[…]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?
[…]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
[…]The Circus and the Sausage Factory
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
“We have now sunk
[…]In Conflict
“The wise do not quarrel.
So, no one quarrels with them.
Therefore, the ancients say,
‘Yield and Overcome!’”
— Lao Tsu…Tao Te Ching
You’ve been there: that much too intense moment when that other person, (lover, spouse, colleague,
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