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Museums and Galleries
In our post on “Culture”, we mentioned a trip that the Dye & Eskin, Inc. team was planning to two well-known museums in the greater Washington DC area.On February 22ND, we visited both the National Gallery of Art and the Spy Museum. Two museums, radically different from each other, but equally impactful. Not impactful because […]
Ikigai
In Japanese, the word Ikigai translates to “reason for being.” Ikigai is the intersection of what someone is good at doing, with what they love to do, and with what the world needs. It is an imperative for the workplace and the source of personal fulfillment.We stumbled on “Ikigai” while contemplating the concept of lifelong […]
Culture
We are confident that we know the meaning of a word until we try to define it for someone else. That was where we found ourselves with the word “culture. “Turning to Google for help resulted in an amazing 962 million search results in 58 seconds.As luck would have it, one of the first definitions […]
SPORT HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD
In August 1921, KDKA, a Pittsburgh radio station, broadcast the first professional baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies. That broadcast set the stage for the role of sports in America to change dramatically from newspaper-reported, local entertainment, to a national economic force. Dye & Eskin, Inc. is a hotbed of sports […]
DOZER, BLUE and GHOST!
The First In a Series of Dog Tales A dog is man’s best friend… King Frederick of Prussia, 1789 Pets are humanizing. They remind us that we have an obligation and responsibility to nurture, care for, and preserve all life. In 1983, Dye and Eskin, Inc. bought the office building where our business continues […]
WHY MUSIC MATTERS!
Think about these names: Mozart, Tschaikovsky, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Sinatra, Sir Elton John, Michael Jackson, Andrea Boccelli, Judy Garland, Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton, Lady Gaga. Regardless of your age and the genre you prefer, you are likely able to hum something they either wrote, sang or both. Music is immeasurably impactful.Here is a fun […]
LONGEVITY, REFLECTION, INTEGRITY
Businesses that thrive for over forty years under the same leadership don’t happen by accident. Dye and Eskin is privileged to enjoy that position along with being able to point to the second generation of Eskins as the ultimate succession to this business legacy. After forty-two years in business, and as we look to our […]