Hold the Front Page: Fiction is useful

This story in the the Australian Financial Review's annoyingly glossy Boss magazine should get some sort of prize for stating the bleeing obvious, if only for the opening:

Novels can teach you more about leadership than the latest business books can. That’s because fiction has more shades of grey, says one management academic.

I guess if this catches on, there might be a publishing revolution so that bookshops are less cluttered with "Who moved my Cheese?" etc and filled with new well-crafted subtle works of fiction. I can dream anyway.