Calls to humanize business are not new. From Elton Mayo to Charles Handy, leading thinkers have called for a role for the humanities in mitigating technology’s relentlessness and the efficiency’s ruthlessness. But therein lies the problem: relegating the humanities to a proscribed “role” reduces them to a useful instrument, which strips them of what makes them special. Poetry is not a productivity hack, and a novel is not a means to an end of increased EQ. Embracing humanity means asking…
