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Charles Packer

Charles Packer is the President of Cherrystone Management Inc.

Creation, Consumption, Conservation, and Choice

Among the many strange things that have befallen Venice, she has had the good fortune to become the object of passion to a man of splendid genius, who has made her his own and in doing so has made her the world's. —Henry JamesJohn Ruskin's best-known work remains The...

Leadership and the Problem of Identity

. . . there is surely no need to get so wrought up about trifles like this. Yourself you have never been at all; Then what does it matter, your dying right out?Henrik Ibsen's dramatic poem, Peer Gynt , focuses largely on the concept of self and identity. The main...