Intro

Why can one learn about management from Shakespear. To tell you the truth, I have never read Shakespear, so I cannot explain it from my own view. After scrolling the internet for articles, it became very clear to me that Shakespears plays often consists of a management system. This system could be a kingdom for example.
Shakespear knew everything about the roles in a system. How power could be used and how power could expose the dark side of human nature trough greed. He knew how emotions within a management system, could affect certain people and how to maintain your image within a tough business world.

Shakespear exposes the issues of management systems. He wrote about how overreaching ambition, dishonesty and jealousy could destroy a company or even a kingdom. The problems that Shakespear described where as relevant then as they are now. Seduction of power is still a major issue in today’s corporate universe.

Knowing this we can start to look at the courses. Why is there so much success and why do the students like the course this much? I think that you always learn the most when something is presented in a playful and appalling way. So I understand why students like the course. Learning about management while watching a play, seems really great.
Here is a sentence that reflects the strength of the course perfectly:

"Seeing the fundamental truths of today's power corridors reflected through the lens of a 16th-century play makes for a stunning impact."

What the course allows the students to do is create a up-close experience of leadership problems of today. Knowing these problems can help students climbing up the corporate ladder and even teach them what to do and not to do when they come to the top themselves. For example. You get a promotion and you are now the boss of your old colleagues. Because of that they won’t immediately respect your authority. This is a problem which you can learn to deal with trough Shakespears plays.

Using scenes as a reference point, the students explore such issues as the role of values and ethics, managing people, uses of power and the role of self-awareness. The students learn about all these problems. To fully understand a company you must know the psychological side of it. This is just what the students learn from Shakespears plays.