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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Page 15
... successful theater company of his time, a servant of the king, and, by the end of his life, one of the wealthiest men in his hometown of 15 Prologue Stratford-on-Avon. (In his early thirties, Shakespeare bought the second-biggest.
... successful theater company of his time, a servant of the king, and, by the end of his life, one of the wealthiest men in his hometown of 15 Prologue Stratford-on-Avon. (In his early thirties, Shakespeare bought the second-biggest.
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... company . Part II turns to the crucial business skills of effective communi- cation and persuasion . Leadership is theater . To be in charge is to act the part . " All the world's a stage , " Shakespeare wrote , and no writer has a ...
... company . Part II turns to the crucial business skills of effective communi- cation and persuasion . Leadership is theater . To be in charge is to act the part . " All the world's a stage , " Shakespeare wrote , and no writer has a ...
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... company faces bankruptcy , pleading with bankers for more time and more money . However , this time Coriolanus's actions pay off - probably because he understands his enemy and fellow warrior , Aufidius , better than he did the tribunes ...
... company faces bankruptcy , pleading with bankers for more time and more money . However , this time Coriolanus's actions pay off - probably because he understands his enemy and fellow warrior , Aufidius , better than he did the tribunes ...
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... company to an ambitious vice president , who promises results even though his credentials are questionable . And for a short while it looks as if Au- fidius's gamble is going to pay off . But just before Coriolanus is about to attack ...
... company to an ambitious vice president , who promises results even though his credentials are questionable . And for a short while it looks as if Au- fidius's gamble is going to pay off . But just before Coriolanus is about to attack ...
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... Company: a small cog in a large organization. Soon she conceded to herself that she wanted power. “Because I had none,” she recalls. But Tina, unlike Macbeth or Richard, did not want power only for the sake of having it. Let her explain ...
... Company: a small cog in a large organization. Soon she conceded to herself that she wanted power. “Because I had none,” she recalls. But Tina, unlike Macbeth or Richard, did not want power only for the sake of having it. Let her explain ...
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 |