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 Uses of Not
“Thirty spokes share the wheel’s hub. It is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a pot. Where the pot’s not; is where it’s useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; the space inside makes “room” for you. Therefore the profit in what is; lies in the use of what is not.”
from the Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tsu
Translation by Gia-Fu Feng, Taoist Priest
Learning, Surrender and Engagement
“The beginner’s white belt gets darker with every hour spent on the mat; at some point, it becomes black.”
-Yoshihiko Hirata Sensei
Aikido Master
All learning
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In Praise of “Counselor Servant Sellers”
“One of the little joys of being a human being, is the occasional opportunity to enjoy “being human” together – to bask in the warmth of an affectionate smile, to appreciate an inside joke, to be caressed, to be served coffee by someone you know cares whether it’s gone cold…”
– J.R. St. John
Executive
This July, think about dependence.
“Gentlemen, we’d best hang together.
Or we will most assuredly hang – separately!”
– Benjamin Franklin
American Printer, Writer, Speaker
Founding Father
(January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790)
“Fear Is Not Solved By Facts!”
– J. R. St. John
Speaker, Consultant, Business Woman
Founder of The Fusion Group
(1952 – )
In this environment, where the news constantly brings word of another confusing or polarizing development, it’s not surprising that audiences can many times be characterized
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