There is surely nothing other than the purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else...

In Tybalt’s case, it means bloody control of the local Court of Cats. He became their king by right of blood; he’s held the position by beating the crap out of anyone who tries to...

When a family is unified, it doesn’t matter what business they’re in. They can successfully transition from one generation to the next.

With leadership succession, families tend to focus on picking the next CEO. Families really need multiple leaders at all levels in their families and family businesses.

The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had...

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

It is not by blood, anyhow, that man’s true continuity is established: Alexander’s direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue,...

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.