Stan Sewitch has over 35 years in business as an entrepreneur, consultant and executive. His adventures include founding HRG Inc., Emlyn Systems, Chromagen and KI Investment Holdings. Stan serves as a director on several boards as well. Stan holds an M.S. in Organizational Psychology from California State University at Long Beach, and a B.A. in Physiological Psychology from San Diego State University. He serves as the Vice President of Global Organization Development for WD-40 Company. Stan can be reached at stan.sewitch@sddt.com

One of the treasures of aging is recognizing frequent paradox and irony. Paradoxes provide a visceral education in the limits of our perception of truth. Makes us humble and therefore open to learning. Ironies teach us that no one deserves anything. Expectations are routinely thwarted in creative and often humorous ways.

You have to bring business to get business.

I have sinned. Yes, and so have you. We have used email, along with the power of “cc,” to engage in subterranean warfare with our real and imagined foes whom we believe mean us harm.