Discussion: Writing Exercise #1 - A Place for Poetry in the World of Business?

Background Information

The Discerning Reader and Writer

One of the learning outcomes in this course includes the Virtuous Business Model. It reads as follows: Integrate the Virtuous Business Model into Your Reading, Research, Writing, and Reporting. The VBM is a key focal point for each of the writing exercise discussion forums. The purpose in this brief writing course is to provide you with a venue that is consistent in its focus so that you can more richly work on your ‘craft of writing’ without always moving from topic to topic. So, while there are assignments that provide you with the opportunity to select the topic of your choice—to encourage you to think and write more broadly, the writing exercises with the VBM offer a venue for you to think more deeply about a topic with the aim of developing and understanding it more fully over time. Such deep thought inevitably incorporates times of reflection and is holistic as we think through the Virtuous Business Model—each component of it—and incorporate our whole beings in the process: mind, body, and spirit.