BCOR 1015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gross Domestic Product, Cornell Law School, The Conference Board
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Point 1: the arts help many even after school. Author: barbara prey, november 9, 2014: artist, member of the national council on the arts, and a. Evidence: companies and organizations that want to stay globally competitive realize they need employees who are multi-disciplinary, creative thinkers able collaborate with other team members. Those qualities are at the heart of staging a play or performing in a jazz quartet. Like the liberal arts in general, training in the arts improves our ability to pull together and synthesize seemingly disparate ideas and information into a coherent and meaningful whole. Further, taking a studio art course or studying art history helps build an aesthetic sensibility that can influence other areas of thinking. The conference board, an independent association that provides its members with business and economic research, has reported that creativity is among the top five applied skills sought by business leaders.
