Research Catalog

Title

Power plays : Shakespeare's lessons in leadership and management / John O. Whitney and Tina Packer ; illustrations by Steve Noble.

Author

Whitney, John O.

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Packer, Tina, 1938-
• Noble, Steve.

Description

316 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "What can Shakespeare teach us about effective leadership? Everything, according to John Whitney, former president of Pathmark Supermarkets and now a leading professor at Columbia Business School, and Tina Packer, founder, president, and artistic director of the critically acclaimed theater group Shakespeare & Company.
• Whether we are dealing with an indecisive Hamlet or a corporate Lear, this innovative approach to management helps us tap the timeless wisdom and profitable genius of the Bard."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Management
• Management in literature
• Leadership in literature
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Views on management
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Views on leadership
• Power (Social sciences) in literature
• Leadership

Contents

Pt. I. Power: For Good and for Evil. 1. Power Is a Freighted Idea: Understand It Before You Use It. 2. Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears a Crown: Promoted? Transferred? New Hire? Tips from the Master. 3. The Trusted Lieutenant: A Delicate Balance. 4. The Skipping King: Uses and Abuses of Perks, Pay, and Privilege. 5. Women and Power: Shakespeare's Education and Transformation -- Pt. II. All the World's a Stage: Business as Theater. 6. All the World's a Stage: Playing the Part. 7. Lend Me Your Ears: The Art of Persuasion -- Pt. III. The Search Within: Integrating Values, Vision, Mission, and Strategy. 8. Polonius's Paradox: Choices and Consequences for Man Alone and Man in Society. 9. The Choice and Master Deceivers of Their Age: What's Fair in Love, War, and Business. 10. Banish Not Your Jack Falstaff: The Value of Mavericks in Our Midst. 11. To Be or Not to Be: It's Up to You: Hamlet's Fatal Flaws.

ISBN

0684868873 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00029160

OCLC

• 43648648
• ocm43648648
• SCSB-3866278

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries