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.

Shakespeare, America and the Superbowl

Posted on February 1, 2014 by jimmie

“Mad I call it; for, to define true madness, What is ‘t but to be nothing else but mad? But let that go.” (Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2) This article may irritate or alienate some American Internauts who regularly visit this site. If so, I am sorry but the information is based on publicly available Read More

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Shakespeare on the Unbelievable Justice in Texas

Posted on January 24, 2014 by jimmie

“Most noble sir, That which I shall report will bear no credit, Were not the proof so nigh.” (Winter’s Tale, act 5, sc. 1) … And disbelief will probably be your reaction on learning about the event, of which I first read in a comment to an unrelated article online. This is why I invite Read More

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Shakespeare and the Shenanigans of the New Jersey’s Governor

Posted on January 14, 2014 by jimmie

“… and you shall not sin, If you do say we think him over-proud And under-honest; in self-assumption greater Than in the note of judgment.” (Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 3) That history repeats itself is an adage with multiple contributors. It started with the biblical Ecclesiastes “Nothing new under the sun”  (Nihil sub Read More

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Shakespeare, Health Care, Doctors and ADHD

Posted on December 20, 2013 by jimmie

“And thou, too careless patient as thou art, Commit’st thy anointed body to the cure Of those physicians that first wounded thee” (King Richard II, act 2, sc. 1) Call it suspension of disbelief, or rather suspension of belief. But disbelief is called for when, on sundry TV snippets, dedicated to health, we listen to Read More

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Shakespeare, False Smiles and a Document from the Bankers’ Magazine

Posted on December 14, 2013 by jimmie

“… he does smile his face into more lines than are in the new map, with the augmentation of the Indies.” (Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 2) Visitors to this site are well aware of the veneer of courtesy usually appearing on the face of economic and political pundits – praising democracy as a pretense Read More

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Shakespeare, Mandela and Immeasurable Hypocrisy

Posted on December 7, 2013 by jimmie

“A huge translation of hypocrisy, Vilely compiled, profound simplicity” (Love’s Labours Lost, act 5, sc. 2) If it were possible to invent a hypocrisiometer (hypocrisy meter), from now to the day of Mandela’s funeral, the indicator would go out of range. Still, a virtual measurement that would demonstrate a few truths, however self-evident, and dealt Read More

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Shakespeare, Secrecy & Recent Information on 9/11

Posted on December 1, 2013 by jimmie

“Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He’s more secure to keep it shut, than shown. For vice repeated’s like the wandering wind, Blows dust in others’ eyes, to spread itself.” (Pericles, act 1, sc. 1)  As Dr. Johnson noted, the “industry of observation has divided the most miscellaneous and confused assemblages into Read More

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Shakespeare and the Defeat of the Swiss Referendum on Compensations

Posted on November 26, 2013 by jimmie

“Do they all deny her? An they were sons of mine, I’d have them whipped; or I would send them to the Turk, to make eunuchs of.“ (All’s Well That Ends Well, act 2, sc. 5) When it became known that Switzerland would hold a referendum – limiting the spread between the lowest and the Read More

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Shakespeare and the Anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jimmie

“Myself had notice of your conventicles –And all to make away my guiltless life” (King Henry VI.part 2, act 3, sc. 1) The assassination of President Kennedy in November 22, 1963 and the catastrophe of Sep 11, 2001 are events biblical, or even apocalyptic, in scope and in history – but they have some common Read More

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Shakespeare, Lincoln & the Gettysburg Address

Posted on November 20, 2013 by jimmie

“…in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.” (Merchant of Venice, act 3, sc. 2) The 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg address has prompted many to explain its significance and to celebrate Lincoln’s sainthood. Which is not entirely accurate, in that Lincoln is more than a saint. He Read More

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