Shakespeare on Management  28605

Leadership Lessons for Today's Managers

  • Part 1: Universal lessons
    1. From Shakespeare to Tom Peters[rtoc]
      • Managers must be leaders
      • What managers do when they manage: the issue of responsibility at the heart of the management experience
      • Management achieves little without managers
      • The importance of emotion
      • Assuming the responsibility for managing change
      • Gender, Shakespeare and modern management
      • How we learn and how managers can learn through this book[/rtoc]
  • Part 2: Authority is not enough
    1. Are leaders born or made?[rtoc]
      • Shakespeare, the idea of being born to lead, and leadership
      • Shakespeare’s writing, his times, change and our times
      • Kings and queens, lords and ladies are humans like the rest of us (and so are managers)[/rtoc]
    2. Richard II: Is being king enough?[rtoc]
      • With all those fancy titles Richard still needs money[/rtoc]
    3. King Lear: Does giving up your kingdom necessarily stop you being king?
    4. Antony: Whose power did he wield – Rome’s or Antony’s
  • Part 3: Having all the power is not enough[rtoc]
      • Power and ambition in the workplace
      • Manipulation as management
      • Being ambitious is not enough[/rtoc]
    1. Richard III: His own man, with ambition for a nation[rtoc]
      • The importance of trust[/rtoc]
    2. Macbeth: “To know my deed ’twere best not know myself”
    3. Coriolanus: Leading from the front is not enough[rtoc]
      • Learning to live with the management of conflict or learning to love it
      • Leading by unreasonable example will lead to separation from your staff
      • The problem of the driven leader
      • What happens to Coriolanus?
      • Conclusions to Part 3 – Separation fails for leaders[/rtoc]
  • Part 4: Learning to be a heroic leader
    1. Henry V: “All things be ready, if our minds be so”[rtoc]
      • From honour to barbarism in one day
      • Power, friendship and action
      • Kill all the prisoners
      • Learning to lead, not born to it
      • Learning through playing
      • Subterfuge, play acting and betrayal
      • Shakespeare’s Henry’s long road to Agincourt
      • Shakespeare’s Henry’s battle at Agincourt[/rtoc]
  • Part 5: Paying attention to the sub-plot
    1. Listening to fools and knaves[rtoc]
      • Lear’s Fool
      • Falstaff: A fool and a rogue to learn from
      • Time: the future and the importance of the present
      • Conclusion[/rtoc]

Topics covered by this book

  1. Henry IV (drama) • p206 • Falstaff: a fool and a rogue to learn from
  2. Macbeth (drama) • p107 • "To know my deed 'twere best not know myself"
  3. King Lear (drama) • p58 • Does giving up your kingdom necessarily stop you being king?
  4. King Lear (drama) • p194 • Lear's Fool
  5. Coriolanus (drama) • p120 • Leading from the front is not enough
  6. Antony and Cleopatra (drama) • p69 • Whose power did he yield? – Rome's or Antony's
  7. Richard II (drama) • p47 • Is being king enough?
  8. Henry V (drama) • p137 • "All things are ready, if our minds be so"
  9. Richard III (drama) • p95 • His own man, with ambition for a nation
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