![]() Check out the complete post to read the author’s explanation of how pondering the classics can help in these areas. People trained in the humanities who study Shakespeare’s poetry, or Cezanne’s paintings, say, have learned to play with big concepts, and to apply new ways of thinking to difficult problems that can’t be analyzed in conventional ways.Įxactly what valuable intellectual skills do humanities grads offer? Golsby-Smith outlines four: complexity and ambiguity, innovation, communication and presentation, and customer and employee satisfaction. It doesn’t teach how to navigate “what if” questions or unknown futures…. This is because our educational systems focus on teaching science and business students to control, predict, verify, guarantee, and test data. They simply don’t have enough people with the right backgrounds. It’s the right intellectual wattage that’s hard to find. There are plenty of MBAs and even Ph.Ds in economics, chemistry, or computer science, in the corporate ranks. Their resumes may never make it past your HR department, but Golsby-Smith argues that people who studied literature, philosophy and the like offer key skills your organization probably lacks: Why? Golsby-Smith argues it’s because you’re not hiring enough humanities majors. One possible answer is that, in general, most people find it hard to think outside the box, but a recent post by Second Road CEO Tony Golsby-Smith on the HBR blog The Conversation offers a slightly different explanation - most people your business is likely to hire find it difficult to think outside the box. "How to get employees to be more innovative is a frequent topic on BNET but the very popularity of these sorts of posts begs another question - why are all your hires so lousy at innovation to start with? Jessica Stillman in BNet explains other reasons why:
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