Dr. Mary Ann Donahue, vice president of Human Development, Medtronic, and Peter Vaill, D.B.A. Distinguished Chair in Management Education at the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Business, also shared their perspectives on bringing the whole self to work. The attempt to reclaim your life in the corporation is the attempt to speak out and make the place as real as possible.
Poetry is the art of intimate speech, of real conversation .
It s the kind of speech you have over your kitchen table late at night . This is exactly the kind of language we need in the corporate world. Our inherited jargon reduces things rather than enlarging them. We ve taken the language of the production line and tried to lay it wholesale over people. Then we wonder why we're so far away from them.