Center for the Applied Study of the Humanities
Washington State University

CONSULTING SERVICES


The Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute advertises its professional development workshops and consulting organization showing that they take great works of literature and classical myths and extract management qualities such as "leadership traits" and "problem-solving" and "group dynamics" out of these -- but they are insane. They seem to celebrate Antigone as a model for female leadership, conflict resolution, and defiance of authority, ignoring the fact that she is killed. They use Shakespeare's Henry V as a model for leadership development with growth in skills and credibility -- even, it seems, "principle-centered leadership" -- ignoring that he's an imperialistic amoral machivellian war criminal.

The Center for the Applied Study of the Humanities can do a damn sight better that this.


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