Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and ManagementThe issues fueling the intricate plots of Shakespeare's four-hundred-year-old plays are the same common, yet complex issues that business leaders contend with today. And, as John Whitney and Tina Packer so convincingly demonstrate, no one but the Bard himself can penetrate the secrets of leadership with such piercing brilliance. Let him instruct you on the issues that managers face every day:
Whitney and Packer do not simply compare Shakespeare's plays with management techniques, instead they draw on their own wealth of business experience to show us how these essential Shakespearean lessons can be applied to modern-day challenges. Power Plays infuses the world of business with new life -- and plenty of drama. |
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... action—these are the pathways to power, which have been going on for centuries and doubtless will con- tinue for centuries to come. Literary or moral genius is not pro- gressive. In the same way that the Old and New Testaments of the ...
... action—these are the pathways to power, which have been going on for centuries and doubtless will con- tinue for centuries to come. Literary or moral genius is not pro- gressive. In the same way that the Old and New Testaments of the ...
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... action has immense repercussions in the outside world . We see Macbeth agonizing over the desires of his " vaulting ambition " to be king , versus his good conscience's warning against becoming a mur- derer . When he chooses to be a ...
... action has immense repercussions in the outside world . We see Macbeth agonizing over the desires of his " vaulting ambition " to be king , versus his good conscience's warning against becoming a mur- derer . When he chooses to be a ...
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... action radiate beyond its intended scope? Will there be other unintended consequences? Should limits be put on power? What should you use it for? How far can you take it? How often can you use it? How will you know if it is effective ...
... action radiate beyond its intended scope? Will there be other unintended consequences? Should limits be put on power? What should you use it for? How far can you take it? How often can you use it? How will you know if it is effective ...
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... actions pay off - probably because he understands his enemy and fellow warrior , Aufidius , better than he did the ... action , sir , Even by your own . CORIOLANUS ( 4.7 , 2-6 ) Although Aufidius realizes he is losing the loyalty of ...
... actions pay off - probably because he understands his enemy and fellow warrior , Aufidius , better than he did the ... action , sir , Even by your own . CORIOLANUS ( 4.7 , 2-6 ) Although Aufidius realizes he is losing the loyalty of ...
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... action that the leader is preparing to take! And the person remains a leader only if the people will be led. Making peo- ple do things because you can is not a very good way of leading— for power alone, ultimately, cannot protect power ...
... action that the leader is preparing to take! And the person remains a leader only if the people will be led. Making peo- ple do things because you can is not a very good way of leading— for power alone, ultimately, cannot protect power ...
Contents
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All the Worlds a Stage Business as Theater | 141 |
The Search Within Integrating Values Vision Mission and Strategy | 185 |
A Woman | 286 |
Notes | 295 |
Acknowledgments | 299 |
Index | 305 |
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Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management John O. Whitney,Tina Packer No preview available - 2000 |
Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management John O. Whitney,Tina Packer No preview available - 2001 |
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Page 116 - All murder'd ; for within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 103 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Page 285 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 164 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit...
Page 68 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
Page 284 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die ; — to sleep ; — No more ; and by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die ; — to sleep...
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Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture Carl Rhodes,Robert Ian Westwood No preview available - 2008 |
Truth, Trust, and the Bottom Line: Seven Steps to Trust Based Management. Diane Tracy,William J. Morin No preview available - 2001 |