- Part 1: Universal lessons
- 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
- 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]
- Richard II: Is being king enough?[rtoc]
- With all those fancy titles Richard still needs money[/rtoc]
- King Lear: Does giving up your kingdom necessarily stop you being king?
- Antony: Whose power did he wield – Rome’s or Antony’s
- Part 3: Having all the power is not enough[rtoc]
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- Power and ambition in the workplace
- Manipulation as management
- Being ambitious is not enough[/rtoc]
- Richard III: His own man, with ambition for a nation[rtoc]
- The importance of trust[/rtoc]
- Macbeth: “To know my deed ’twere best not know myself”
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Henry IV (drama) • p206 • Falstaff: a fool and a rogue to learn from
- Macbeth (drama) • p107 • "To know my deed 'twere best not know myself"
- King Lear (drama) • p58 • Does giving up your kingdom necessarily stop you being king?
- King Lear (drama) • p194 • Lear's Fool
- Coriolanus (drama) • p120 • Leading from the front is not enough
- Antony and Cleopatra (drama) • p69 • Whose power did he yield? – Rome's or Antony's
- Richard II (drama) • p47 • Is being king enough?
- Henry V (drama) • p137 • "All things are ready, if our minds be so"
- Richard III (drama) • p95 • His own man, with ambition for a nation
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