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.

Do You Believe in Music?


“He who sings prays twice.”
— Augustine

“Funny thing about memory: it has so many layers.”
— L. T. Harriman

 

The hotel hallway runs the length of the building, conference rooms marching left, right, left, down to the end. Each door is open, awaiting attendees for insurance training,

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Embodied Philosophy

Meditations on Corporate Architecture

 


“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.”
— Constantin Brancusi
Sculptor (1876 – 1957)

“Music is liquid architecture. Architecture is Frozen Music.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A great architect is not made by way of the brain

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Shovel & Pink Tights

The circus came to town. Dad and I made the trip to see the parade down 4th Avenue. Later that night we saw the Main Event under the Big Top! The Elephants were my favorites — a long line of them. There, sitting atop the leader, at the head of the column, was a girl in pink tights and a satin leotard, her blonde hair pulled tightly back in a jaunty pony tail! She had the best job in the world!

Later, during the show, I saw her again as the Elephants took their places in the center ring

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Command? or Comment?


“Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”
Henry II played by Peter O’Toole
in Becket

 

It was a pointed comment made in a moment of rage.

It resulted in the death of Thomas

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Above Politics?


“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean that politics will not take an interest in you.”
— Pericles
Athenian General, Orator and Statesman
495 BC – 429 BC

Said a client recently, “Hey, I’m not interested in politics. I just want to do my job and get great results!”

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