Purpose – To convey the potential of hidden benefits in well‐selected arts‐based training – in this particular instance, theatrically‐based training. Design/methodology/approach – A leading international consultancy put numerous vice presidents through training with The Actors...

Purpose – This paper demonstrates how effectively developing visual skills from observing and analyzing works of art applies in developing leadership skills and examines one application where these artistic skills are viewed as specific thinking skills that are regularly used in new product...

Purpose – This article seeks to distinguish between rhetorical and cognitive metaphors and argues in favor of “pushing past the fault line.”. Design/methodology/approach – Too much of strategy is locked in a toolbox approach that often makes solutions appear much easier than they are....

Purpose – To convey the findings of an investigation into the relationship between poetry and business thinking, which began with the hypothesis that regular reading and analysis of poetry and its levels of meaning, subtle verbal and nonverbal contextual nuances, emotional content, and...