Waterton Centre, Bridgend Clare Morgan M.A., M.Phil., D.Phil., F.R.S.A. - Postponed
What could poetry and business have in common? Isn't reading a poem something you'd do in your spare time, strictly for artistic or aesthetic recreation? This seminar will show that poetry can be an important means of enabling business people to generate skills and insights that expand their ways of thinking and help prepare them for the challenges of an uncertain and unpredictable strategic environment.
Clare Morgan, M.A., M.Phil., D.Phil., F.R.S.A.
Clare Morgan is a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. After gaining her doctorate from Oxford she subsequently tutored in English Literature at Brasenose College and Christ Church, before becoming Director of Oxford's innovative and internationally recognized Master of Studies in Creative Writing. S he is a prize winning novelist and short story writer, and has also published poems and numerous critical articles, as well as regular reviews for the Times Literary Supplement. For the past five years she has been a Fellow of the Strategy Institute of The Boston Consulting Group, where she has been researching and writing a book on poetry and strategic thinking, which is to be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2008.