This book explores and demonstrates the transformative learning experiences that organizations and their leaders can derive from the arts. It is through the arts that we have always explored our humanity: through dance and music; art and sculpture; theatre and poetry. The arts allow us to explore our own selves and our relationship to others and to the world around us. This central role of the arts is commonly accepted in everyday life, but the implications of this are not typically extended to the world of business.The authors argue strongly that, to the contrary, the methodologies and...
This book explores and demonstrates the transformative learning experiences that organizations and their leaders can derive from the arts. It is throu...
The stories in "Wish You Were Here" are dynamic, sharply rendered observations on the human condition and the world we inhabit. And whether they're moving onward, upward, or somewhere else in life, if at all, the characters in these sketches are real people facing genuine dilemmas-struggles at once familiar and unique, and very often, defining. From the shopkeeper in "Provisions," who parts with one of his most prized possessions in order to earn a customer's business, to the platoon sergeant in "Chance of Rain," who risks his own life to ensure the safety of one of his soldiers, to the young...
The stories in "Wish You Were Here" are dynamic, sharply rendered observations on the human condition and the world we inhabit. And whether they're mo...