Pamela I. Perry Writes for the South Florida Daily Business Review
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How Will I Be Remembered? Messages and Metamessages
I’m in the de-clutter mode, discarding accumulated stuff to spare my survivors someday sorting through it. The poet Keith Douglas had it right: “Simplify me when I am dead.” Sending outdated professional files to the shredder has been easy, satisfying, even liberating.
CUTTING EDGE COMPANIES CULTIVATE THE “SOFT SIDE”
There’s lots of buzz about the “hard side” and the “soft side” in business today.
The hard side. For two centuries, “hard side” thinking has…
HANGING ON, LETTING GO, OR “LETTING GROW”
Some thirty years ago, an anxious parent removed the training wheels from Lance Armstrong’s tiny two-wheeler.
No doubt Lance wobbled, fell a few…
DIVIDED FAMILIES: CIVIL DISENGAGEMENT INSTEAD OF WAR
“A house divided against itself cannot stand” warned Abraham Lincoln, quoting Aesop. Later, as president, Lincoln concluded that war was inevitable…
DIVORCE? NO. MURDER? YES!
The late Ruth Bell Graham, outspoken wife of evangelist Billy Graham was once asked if she had ever contemplated divorcing her husband. Her reply:…
DON’T MAKE MONEY A TABOO TOPIC
When our older daughter was about nine, she bounced up on the bed beside me with a question:
“Why do I look like you, Daddy? “Mama told me to ask…
DOOMSDAY MACHINE
The Family “Doomsday Machine”
At the climax of the cult movie “Dr. Strangelove”, the Soviet Union unleashes its “Doomsday Machine”, a destructive…
FAMILIES ARE LIKE PORCUPINES
At wedding rehearsal dinners, my wife toasts the bride and groom:
“May your marriage be like two porcupines snuggling down on a cold night: close…
FAMILY DIALOGUE
Dialogue accesses knowledge that is otherwise inaccessible to individuals inquiring alone.
Suppose the major estate asset is the family…