The noted documentarian on waning attention spans and why business leaders should study history.
…a top executive at a large telecommunications company lamented to me that business schools were producing MBA graduates who had no knowledge of the humanities. He worried that they were a bunch of automatons. He said, 鈥淚 can teach these people business skills, but I can鈥檛 teach them ethics, history, or art.鈥� Business leaders ought to study history. You can鈥檛 possibly know where you are or where you鈥檙e going if you don鈥檛 know where you鈥檝e been. 聽
