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.

The Number Three

 

“Today’s column is brought to you by the number Three!”

-Spoken by Big Bird on “Sesame Street”
Children’s Television Workshop


It’s odd.  And yet, it’s evenly balanced — on three legs.  It’s symmetrical, and strangely

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Working the Fields

“Your paddy is your life.  If you dedicate yourself to the love, planting, fertilizing and cultivating of your acre you will ultimately harvest your livelihood!”

 – Ban Komoda Roshi
Japanese Zen Master and Teacher

 

 

Is there a connection between the

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Do your homework!

 

“Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!”*

– General George S. Patton, U.S. Army
Spoken by George C. Scott, playing the general, in the movie “Patton”

 

In this classic war movie from 1970, General

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“Win/Win” Negotiating

 

“Always leave the man a place to stand.”

– J. E. Morrow
American Social Commentator
(1920 – 1996)

“Win/Win” Negotiating

It’s a dramatic testimony to the power of our “fixed price” culture (in department stores,

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Here Be Dragons!

Fear of the Unknown

Pushing the Edge
Land of the Shadow
Far Side of the Swamp
Fiscal Cliff
The Ghosts in the Shed
Beyond the River Styx
The Edge of the Earth
Demon Town
The Dark Side
The Bogeyman in the Closet
Mordor;

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