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 […]
Uncategorized
Cool Heads and Warm Hearts
“A man who is master of himself and always acts with sang-froid has a great advantage over him who is of a lively and easily inflamed nature”, writes Francois de Callieres.1 What the writer was saying here is that an emotional person who is easily carried away, in that he is unable to be master […]
An Introduction to Rhetoric: The Greek Experience:
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 […]