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Management and the Classics: selective listening and the Julius Caesar Saga

Brian LeggettMarch 16, 2011

What can the classics say to the modern manager and executive? What can he or she gain from reading Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar? One lesson that immediately springs to mind is, does unfettered ambition naturally lead to a selective listening process? Gaius Julius Caesar’s unrestrained ambition to match or outperform the achievements of Alexander the Great […]

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An Introduction to Rhetoric: The Greek Experience:

Brian LeggettMarch 6, 2011

Every epoch experiences its changes and upheavals, and 5th Century Greece was no different to this general trend in history. The reasons for such changes are complex but, perhaps in the case of Ancient Greece, a new sense of national identity caused by such dramatic events as Greece’s victory over the Persians, its ever expanding […]

Brian O’C Leggett

Brian Leggett is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Managing People in Organizations. His areas of interest include the use of persuasion (rhetoric) and dialectic in the management process; the practical application of persuasion and dialectic in management situations; and the connection between leadership and communication.

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