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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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