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...The Businessperson's Lament by K. Bernardo, for Nov. 1998 Many businessmen believe that creative writing drama, fiction, or poetry, and to some extent even essays are irrelevant to their lives. They are wrong. Literature does far more than entertain, or justify the careers of writers, movie producers, and college professors. It informs, just as much as (and possibly more than) how-to manuals or industry analyses. John Kenneth Galbraith said that "The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth" (Galbraith, student-provided quote). It is through absorbing the immortal tales of human struggle, not reports of profit and loss, that one's character is forged. Literature serves this purpose in a number of different ways. First, it enables those whose scope is limited by geography, ethnicity, or education to access horizons beyond their own. Without works such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, for example, it would be difficult for most of us to imagine what it was like to...