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Sign Guestbook Showing 1 - 5 Of 409    Next Posted On 09-22-2009 4:13 AM Name : Manivannan Email Address : shivmani5@hotmail.com Comment : I liked your note on "paradox in business" (sept 22). 'Yin and yang' type ideas have a romantic appeal and are also useful in simplifying or explaining several ideas. But much of what we encounter in real life is not amenable to easy classification, and anything that we can't classify based on patterns that we are familiar with, tends to make us uncomfortable-- we either assimilate 'the new' or discard it. Sometimes assimilation can be long winded and even painful (,pleasurable, if you develop a taste for it!). Societies and Organizations spend enormous resources on 'weeding out' what seems out of the ordinary and to create structures to sustain the flow of activity. While structure is very useful for large societies to function, we know from history that the 'preferred structure' is not a constant and the structure itself is an impediment for men and women to realize their multiple potentials ; there should be space or tolerance for what at first sight looks contradictory or threatening and for real change. Absolutely no progress is possible without grappling with what is new, contradictory and intimidating. Posted On 09-12-2009 5:47 PM Name : Marc Mihail Email Address : pastormarc@gmail.com Comment : I love this site, and look forward to continued reading.   My sincere thanks. Marc Mihail Posted On 09-11-2009 12:45 PM Name : Jay Gordon Email Address : jaygordonwillits@me.com Comment : Posted On 08-20-2009 11:27 PM Name : Tim Johnson Email Address : taj1964@gmail.com Comment : The Article about Opium (19 Aug. 2009) states that Malacca is south of Singapore.  I have been to Malacca, and I distinctly remember traveling north and west from Singapore to get there. Posted On 08-10-2009 6:36 PM Name : Trish Bailey Email Address : trishbailey321@gmail.com Comment : I really liked this Steinbeck quote... it shows such fine-tuned observation of human nature. I think that's one of the most important elements of a truly great writer: not just the ability to string words together, but the ability to observe deeply and keenly, and then to capture it in words.   Writing is such a service when the readers can say, "Yes, yes, that's it!  I always had a vague sense of that, but I was never able to pin it down in words." Thanks for your work, Mr. Vague.

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