The ultimate impact of the liberal arts on the art of management, then, is a major contribution to the evolution of an ethical and humanistic capital… - Roger Smith

# They are trained to see relationships between things that may seem different.

Whether you are carving a statue or reorganizing a corporation, you have a vision of what you want to create, as well as a sense of how to make that vision real by bringing different elements together according to an overall pattern... And just as artists communicate their intent through their works, managers must be able to convey their vision in an inspiring and forceful way - in other words to lead - or else that vision will never be fully realized.

# They have learned sideways thinking, the cross classifying habit of mind that comes from learning many different ways to look at things.