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Museum of Ideas for Business Thinkers
Friday, October 9, 2020
If you don’t have one of Mary Oliver’s books of poetry on your desk I recommend you pick one up. Set it right next to ‘Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass,’ and when you need a pause in your day — in between zooms or socially-distanced-masked meetings — to breathe — pick one of them up and read a poem. . .
“What is there beyond knowing that keeps
calling to me? I can’t
turn in any direction
but it’s there. I don’t mean
the leaves’ grip and shine or even the thrush’s
silk song, but the far-off
fires, for example,
of the stars, heaven’s slowly turning…” — Mary Oliver
What is there beyond knowing? Many things to stay curious about — but — — -what isn’t beyond knowing this week are these 5 things that I added to my ‘Museum of Ideas for Business Thinkers’:
- We need upside-down thinking to make us better.
When we think in upside-down — inside-out — ways that challenge the norm, we stretch our brains and reimagining things becomes possible. We need to remember that our way — whatever it is — isn’t necessarily the right way — and we can adjust our thinking as we learn.
