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Infographic: Poetry at Work Day 2017

By Will Willingham 26 Comments

In a recent survey of 1500 CEOs, IBM reported that creativity was the top leadership quality needed to take businesses into the future — it ranked higher than integrity and global thinking. While you might find this result surprising, it won’t likely surprise you that poets are, well, creative. Perhaps that’s why Harvard Business Review recently discussed the value of poetry for professionals. And why a business leader like Sidney Harman was known to ask his staff to hire poets as managers. (Poets? As managers? And he ran a successful business?)

Tweetspeak Poetry believes in poetry at work — finding it at work (poetry is all over the workplace) and bringing it to work (why, we even recently sponsored Take Your Poet to Work Day.)

To help you celebrate, we’re featuring our Poetry at Work Day infographic.

Poetry at Work Day Infographic 2018

Post and Poetry at Work Day infographic by Will Willingham.

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I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.
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I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.

Comments

  1. Maureen Doallas says

    October 1, 2013 at 10:25 am

    Stellar!

    Reply
  2. L. L. Barkat says

    October 1, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    I love the little guy behind the Frost book 🙂 And Hannah’s poem is still as wonderful as the first day I read it.

    (And altogether, I love how the logic here builds 🙂

    Reply
  3. Donna says

    October 3, 2013 at 8:24 am

    CALL THE POET!! I love this!!! Great Infographic! Makes me wish I had a job to go to get something started! Guess I’ll have to be creative about that!

    I always longed for a boss who appreciated my approach to things. One elementary school principal came close when he called me a rare bird (I think he meant it in a good way). I remember another supervisor I had once didn’t like my creative process so much… she told me “they” had been talking… decided I needed to be put in a box” (I wondered if she meant pine). 😉

    Reply
  4. Dawn Jordan says

    October 5, 2013 at 6:42 am

    I practice the oral tradition in poetry every day as I help my massage clients lift and shift the pain in their bodies. Metaphor mediates mind and body. On weekends I write on paper. http://Www.bodywisdom.pro/poetry

    Love your infographics!

    Reply
  5. Diana Trautwein says

    January 7, 2014 at 9:59 pm

    Perfection. As usual. Thank you.

    Reply
  6. Marcy Tewilliger says

    January 11, 2014 at 11:23 pm

    Since my days are no longer at a place of work surrounded by people I get on face-book each day and share a poem with my friends. Some or quotes, things to make them laugh. Mostly I do it for me because writing makes me happy.

    Reply
  7. David Rupert says

    January 14, 2014 at 10:52 pm

    That infographic is the bomb! Wow!

    Reply

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