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Do You Know What To Do with the Future?
If Thomas Friedman is right, if the future belongs to those who can invent new jobs and industries rather than staffing existing ones, then it belongs to people with a…
Businesses Find the Right Intellectual Wattage in Students of the Humanities
Business leaders around the world have told me that they despair of finding people who can help them solve wicked problems ā or even get their heads around them. Itās…
Lack of Languages Stifles Brits and Americans
The British Academy’s report, Languages: the State of the Nation, published in February 2013, discovered “strong evidence of a growing deficit in foreign language skills at a time when globally…
Leadership Through Theatre: Ibsen Takes on Business and Management
Problem solving, good decisions, visions, and – of course – critical thinking, are all traits required in leadership, traits we chase in hiring, training we search for to help our teams achieve greatness, characteristics that are easy to…
Counterintuitive Humanities Brings Surprises
A new kind of capitalism is being heralded in business journals throughout the world. āConscious Capitalismā and āInclusive Capitalismā are but two of the new buzz terms in re-examining capitalism in the 21st century. At the same time,…
The Art World the Millennial Way
Much as the wine industry is currently transitioning from catering to highbrow Boomers to understanding Millennial-tailored (less exclusive) tastes, the art world is in a stage of reinvention. Once considered…
A College Degree Sorts Job Applicants, but Employers Wish it Meant More
“….half of those surveyed recently by The Chronicle and American Public Media’s Marketplace said they had trouble finding recent graduates qualified to fill positions at their company or organization. Nearly…
Executives Say the 21st Century Needs More Skilled Workers
“As the U.S. economy begins to show signs of improvement, executives say they need a workforce fully equipped with skills beyond just the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic (the…
Liberal Arts and Humanities Education: Who is Right – Bill Gates, or the Late Steve Jobs?
“My research team at Duke and Harvard surveyed 652 U.S.-born chief executive officers and heads of product engineering at 502 technology companies. We found that they tended to be highly…
New Models of Arts Leadership: Tapping into the Millennials
Courtney Mersereau from BCA member company RBC Wealth Management is an example of a Greater Portland young professional eager to help in the arts. She is currently on the executive…
Reopening a Door to the Young
Iāve been consulting for more than four decades. Twenty or 30 years ago, a hiring manager at a Fortune 500 company was much more willing to give, say, a dance…
Conscious Capitalism
Before I co-founded Whole Foods Market, I attended two universities, where I accumulated about 120 hours of electives, primarily in philosophy, religion, history, world literature, and other humanities. I only…
Drive (2009) by Daniel Pinks
In business, we tend to obsess over the “how”āas in “Here’s how to do it.” Yet we rarely discuss the “why”āas in “here’s why we’re doing it.” But it’s often…
Tony Wagner on needs and profit
The greatest innovations of the 21st century will be those that have helped to address human needs more than those that had created the most profit. (6)
Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities
Building on the record and cumulative experiences of this co-operation, the Haniel Foundation is aiming to focus and re-align the strengths of its engagement in higher education. The European Haniel…
Reich on Philosophy
[This introductory Philosophy course] was part of a broader Harvard intellectual training that provided my most important training for subsequent careers in risk arbitrage investment on Wall Street and in…
Butterfield on Backgrounds
The message [i]s that entrepreneurism is a good avenue for exercising the kinds of things you learn with a humanities degree… I think if you have a good background in…
Fiorina on Valuable Courses
The most valuable class I took at Stanford was not Econ 51. It was a graduate seminar called, believe it or not, “Christian, Islamic and Jewish Political Philosophies of the…
Eisner on English Majors
I think maybe the best education, or the best foundation for business is probably reading Shakespeare, rather than reading some MBA program out of some great business school. I think…
Intellectual entrepreneurship
Intellectual entrepreneurship seeks to reclaim for the contemporary world the oldest strain in our common intellectual tradition: the need for thought and reflection in the midst of the world of action. As the experiment of the original Greek…
The Art World the Millennial Way
Food for Thought: What Does “Service” and “Leadership” Mean to You?
Pursuing a New Perspective in Medicine
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table