I missed this excellent Huffington Post piece by Ruth Sherman entitled What Artists Could Teach Goldman Sachs, but my friend and colleague Alison Kemper pointed it out. It is a lovely analysis and twice quotes a man about whom more business people ought to know. It is Elliot Eisner, a Stanford professor legendary in the education academy – not the business academy. Sherman quotes from two of his articles, which are terrific. But I also recommend his 1991 classic: The Enlightened Eye: Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice (New York: Macmillan, 1991). It is a beautiful book that provides a warning to educators to not be led off the cliff by analytical techniques.  Every thing in the book is equally applicable to businesspeople. I have an upcoming mini-review of the book in Harvard Business Review.