JMcC [quoting Sidney Harmon]:
"Poets are our original systems thinkers," he said. "They look at our most complex environments and they reduce the complexity to something they begin to understand."
Hell, every redneck I've ever known does that. Mike Geary Memphis----- Original Message ----- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:36 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Poet Managers
Courtesy of Creative Generalist: http://creativegeneralist.blogspot.com/Last Saturday's NY Times included a delightful article about some CEOs' vast private libraries as a result of their love for reading. It describes the libraries of some prominent CEOs and asserts that some of the world's best leaders read often and read widely, often foregoing business bestsellers for fiction, classics, historical texts, and poetry. All contribute to shaping a leader's tone, strategy, and insight in the work world. I found one paragraph in particular offered a rather shrewd observation: Poetry speaks to many C.E.O.'s. "I used to tell my senior staff to get me poets as managers," says Sidney Harman, founder of Harman Industries, a $3 billion producer of sound systems for luxury cars, theaters and airports. Mr. Harman maintains a library in each of histhree homes, in Washington, Los Angeles and Aspen, Colo.>-- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN Tel. +81-45-314-9324 http://www.wordworks.jp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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