The noted documentarian on waning attention spans and why business leaders should study history.

…a top executive at a large telecommunications company lamented to me that business schools were producing MBA graduates who had no knowledge of the humanities. He worried that they were a bunch of automatons. He said, “I can teach these people business skills, but I can’t teach them ethics, history, or art.” Business leaders ought to study history. You can’t possibly know where you are or where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.   Read more…