The Classic Touch: Lessons in Leadership from Homer to Hemingway

Clemens, John;Mayer, Douglas F.

ISBN 10: 0870949039 / ISBN 13: 9780870949036

Published by Dow Jones-Irwin, Homewood, Illinois, 1987

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(First Edition, Fourth Printing) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Classic Touch: Lessons in Leadership from Homer to Hemingway
• Publisher: Dow Jones-Irwin, Homewood, Illinois
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870949039
• ISBN 13: 9780870949036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mind Development, Reasoning & Thinking Studies
  • American Cultural, Political & Social Commentary

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Synopsis

The first book ever to integrate the classics of Western listerature with contemporary business issues.

Reviews

Clemens and Mayer, who teach business at Hartwick College in New York, here set out to demonstrate that universal human experience, as found in classic literature, is applicable to the complexities of modern corporate warfare. In short takes and juxtaposed quotations they cite, among others, Homer's Iliad on "management style" and "reward systems"; Machiavelli's The Prince on management policy in a takeover (fire 'em); Castiglione on intracorporate etiquette; Shakespeare on keeping one's cool; and For Whom the Bell Tolls for leadership without rancor. The classics are full of stirring and useful knowledge, the authors remind us in spritely and readable style. Like the final parting of Brutus and Cassius their thesis is "well made."
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