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Prologue

Part I  Power
For Good and for Evil

1  Power Is a Freighted Idea
Understand It Before You Use It

2  Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears a Crown
Promoted? Transferred? New Hire? Tips from the Master

3  The Trusted Lieutenant
A Delicate Balance

4  The Skipping King
Uses and Abuses of Perks, Pay, and Privilege

5  Women and Power
Shakespeare's Education and Transformation

Part II  All the World's a Stage
Business as Theater

6  All the World's a Stage
Playing the Part

7  Lend Me Your Ears
The Art of Persuasion

Part III  The Search Within
Integrating Values, Vision, Mission, and Strategy

8  Polonius's Paradox
Choices and Consequences for Man Alone and Man in Society

9  The Choice and Master Deceivers of Their Age
What's Fair in Love, War, and Business

10  Banish Not Your Jack Falstaff
The Value of Mavericks in Our Midst

11  To Be or Not to Be: It's Up to You
Hamlet's Fatal Flaws

Epilogue: A Woman

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index