Category Archives: Shakespeare in Management

“Management” is almost the crucible of all that is bad in man (and sometimes good). Shakespeare offer an incredible wealth of management insights. Equally, Shakespeare is a fantastic source of punchlines – yes – to drive your good colleagues into action and your sons-of-bitches office enemies into despair.

The Trouble with Trump

Posted on March 16, 2016 by jimmie

“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” (Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 4) By general consent, in American elections there is no kingdom for a stage, there are no princes to act, nor monarchs to behold the swelling scene (1). By tacit agreement, elections stand midway Read More

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Osama, or You Only Die Twice

Posted on May 19, 2015 by jimmie

… a double plunge into… “the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns.” (Hamlet 3.1) Recent American history proves that various successive Administrations expect the populace to believe anything, provided it is quite incredible.

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Words and Nothingness

Posted on May 5, 2015 by jimmie

A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off. Two Gentlemen from Verona Some agree that it is possible to measure a character from his appearance (“… costly thy habit as thy purse can buy….” (1)), from his demeanor (“So may the outward shows be least themselves, the world is still deceived with ornament” Read More

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Ukraine, Shakespeare & the Oligarchs

Posted on March 23, 2015 by jimmie

“…all is uneven and every thing is left at six and seven.” King Richard II, act 2, sc. 2 It is hard to imagine how the chroniclers of the mainstream media can still maintain that the Ukraine coup of February 2014 had anything to do with democracy. It is an endeavor similar to mingling oil Read More

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Syriza, Not So Greek to Us

Posted on March 6, 2015 by jimmie

CASSIUS Did Cicero say any thing? CASCA Ay, he spoke Greek. CASSIUS  To what effect? CASCA (I don’t know)… but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me. Julius Caesar, act 1, sc. 2 It was almost inevitable that the meteoric Read More

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Shakespeare and Disbelief

Posted on November 30, 2014 by jimmie

“Most noble sir, That which I shall report will bear no credit, Were not the proof so nigh.” Timon of Athens, act 5, sc. 1 At the United Nations, a motion was recently tabled to condemn the glorification of Nazism. USA, Canada and Ukraine voted against the motion.

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Shakespeare and One Medal Too Many

Posted on November 26, 2014 by jimmie

“What a god is gold, That he is worshipp’d in a baser temple Than where swine feed!” Timon of Athens, act 5, sc. 1 This week, with the customary pomp and circumstance, Obama bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 18 recipients. It is the highest civilian honor in the Unites States.

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Shakespeare, Murder and Video Games

Posted on October 27, 2014 by jimmie

“…the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape” (Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2) Anita Sarkeesian is a feminist with a creative talent. A critic of video games, she analyses how women are therein portrayed, and how the implicit messages are diffused to players at large. The lady caight media attention for having been forced Read More

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Shakespeare, Injustice and Careers

Posted on September 12, 2014 by jimmie

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.” (Measure For Measure, act 2, sc.1) On September 5, 2014, Henry McCollum and his half  brother Leon Brown left their North Carolina prison– where they spent 30 years for a Read More

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Shakespeare & Murder at Sarajevo, part 2

Posted on August 11, 2014 by jimmie

“… hie thee from this slaughter-house, Lest thou increase the number of the dead” (King Richard III, act 4, sc. 1) In Aug 1914 millions of young people marched to their death as merry as the singers in the stars. Hamlet would say, “…I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a Read More

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