Description: How do you motivate people to give their all for the cause? Ask Henry V at Agincourt. Have you passed over someone who wanted to be promoted? Beware of the Iago syndrome. Facing a hostile audience? Take a cue from Mark Anthony. How do you fire someone? Learn the good and the bad from Henry IV.

The issues fueling the intricate plots of Shakespeare's 400-year-old plays are the same issues that business leaders contend with today. And as John Whitney and Tina Packer so convincingly and comprehensively demonstrate, no one but the beloved Bard could ever penetrate the secrets of leadership with such piercing brilliance and invaluable instruction.

For the benefit of corporate players at every level, this ingenious book holds up Shakespeare's powerful mirror to consider such perennial business themes as power, trust, communication, and decisiveness. Best of all, the authors drive the messages home with real-world models of modern-day success and failure -- featuring such monarchs (both reigning and deposed) as GE's Jack Welch, AT&T's Robert Allen, and Apple's John Scully. Eloquent and consistently surprising, Power Plays injects the business literature with new life -- and plenty of drama.

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