Lucy Kellaway in today's Financial Times:
Managers can learn a great deal from fiction, or so thinks Sandra Sucher. She teaches a course at Harvard Business School in which she makes chief executives sit down and talk about novels. She thinks that business leaders should steal the idea of book clubs from their wives, and get together with their peers once a month to thrash out the moral dilemmas posed in fiction.
FT.com / Home UK / UK - A novel approach for chief executives
My take: There are likely to be a lot more ex-managers from which to assemble such reading groups.
add: The hook:
http://www.george-orwell.org/Books_v...arettes/0.html