Why CEOs need to read poetry – yes poetry – to lead in the post-Covid world

Leaders will need to be resilient, open-minded, and creative. Poetry can show them the way

BY CLARE MORGAN AND MASSIMO PORTINCASO

Here’s a fascinating article well worth a read. It explains how leaders are being called on to engage in a new and extremely challenging kind of dual thinking – to manage the present creatively while simultaneously developing answers for an unknown and brutally complex future. The authors posit that they “can think of no better tool for this important mindset shift than poetry.”