Poets, the True Digital Thinkers
A friend sent me this quote, and it’s too good to keep to myself. As we move from an industrial to a creative economy, perhaps poets will be kings.
“I say, ‘Get me some poets as managers.’ Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obliged to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world turns. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow’s new business leaders.”
-Sidney Harman, cofounder, audio-equipment manufacturer Harman Kardon