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Courses Shakespeare and Management: Chairman of the Bard William Shakespeare composed what are without argument the best histories ever written. Corporate leaders realize that understanding human nature is what makes for a success in business and no one understood this better than Shakespeare. This is highly entertaining interactive workshop involves film watching and organization building. Shakespeare is unique in his power of analyzing power and leadership. No other dramatist comes close. Shakespeare looks deeply into what it takes to be a leader and how leaders act under demanding and extreme circumstances. Whether it is the charismatic leader Henry motivating his troops before battle, the dysfunctional leader Richard III or the ruthless leader Macbeth downsizing his competition the Bard’s shrewd understanding of palace politics and the strategies of warfare can just as easily be applied to the twist and turns of the corporate world. More than just an entertaining guide to a new aspect of Shakespeare's remarkable legacy, this workshop is full of penetrating advice about leadership in a changing world. Whether it is looking at Henry V’s amazing ability to motivate a team facing almost certain defeat or Marc Antonym skillfully undermining his former CEO Julius Caesar this session reveals Shakespeare’s management genius in its full glory. Military Strategy and Management: The CEO as Commander in Chief Believe it: if you are in business you are at war. Your enemies—your competitors—intend to annihilate you. Just keeping alive on the battlefield is going to be a struggle. Winning may be impossible—unless you are a master of military strategy. You can be—if you follow the examples of the great tacticians of history. Because the same techniques that made Hannibal, Fredrick the Great, Napoleon and Patton the incomparable conquerors they were are still working for Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, John Chambers and other super-strategists on today’s corporate battle fields. Join us behind the scenes and to the front lines of the major wars of the past. Learn strategic battle principals taught at West Pont and how to apply them to your business. What battle field commanders have to say—which is remarkably similar across historical, state and ideological divides—is a fascinating take on strategic thinking by those who had to live with the consequences of life and death decisions. Bad Leaders: What the best management can learn from some Grimly and tragically successful is what I call them. For a time they were admired not only for their success, but also admired for their achievements, even by those who should have known better and later opposed them. But for a period of time, mercifully not long lasting or permanent as they claimed their legacy would be, they enjoyed wide success and emulation. They constructed a highly successful new business model, applauded by many, got good press, received intense emotional support from their followers who fervently thought they were building a new organizational much superior to the old, discredited way of doing things. They were phenomenally successful—for a time. Sounds a lot like the dot com boom of the ‘90’s. But no, this was the world of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Chairman Mao, all successful but all ultimately failures and the worst leaders in history. We can learn from success. We can learn from failure. But we can learn the most from those who were both. Learn what not to do, how success can be a tragic failure and how to apply these lessons from history both to your life and your business.
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