Brush up Your Shakespeare, Start Doing it Now

Shakespeare has been a staple of management training for a long time. But only in the last few years have programs used Shakespeare’s works to teach chief executives the vulnerabilities to which the powerful are susceptible.

“C.E.O.’s are the modern kings and queens of the global world,” says Kevin Coleman, a Shakespearean actor who dramatizes for chief executives how a mistake made in the global economy might have vast and unintended consequences.

James Dimon rediscovered Shakespeare shortly after he was fired from his job as president of Citigroup (by a man who was like a father to him). Then he was invited to talk at Columbia Business School to students who had been studying power and succession using "King Lear." That day Dimon learned that Shakespeare had written a case study predicting his dismissal from Citigroup.
Source: New York Times November 10, 2007