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Shakespeare: The World as Stage by: Bill Bryson List Price: CDN$ 21.95 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 16.02 You Save: CDN$5.93 (27%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33 EAN: 9780060740221 ISBN: 0060740221 Label: Harper Collins Canada Manufacturer: Harper Collins Canada Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: October 11, 2007 Publisher: Harper Collins Canada Studio: Harper Collins Canada Sales Rank: 20921 Related Items:
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 Rating: - To be or not to be?I'm an ardent Bryson fan ...and although this is a departure from his normal fare, I still very much enjoyed it. I may not agree with his views on Shakespeare as the real author of the works attributed to the bard, but he tells his side of the story in an interesting and entertaining way as always. I'd recommend this to anyone who is unsure whether to follow Bryson off his normal beaten track. As an aside, I'd also suggest you get 'Shakespeare My Butt!' and put it on your bookshelf next to Bryson's Shakespeare just to balance the 'did he or didn't he' debate - even if just for show!. Oddly enough, Shakespeare My Butt isn't about Shakespeare at all - but is a lot more Brysonesque (if that's a word) than this actual Bryson book. Rating: - An invitation to take a "six-point journey"The title of this review refers to Emmanuel Gobillot's invitation to his readers to accompany him on a "journey" to explore six separate but related leadership propositions that he identifies in the Introduction (please see Page 5). They are best revealed within the context he creates for each. He asserts that a "formal" organization is one designed with structures and processes that focus (almost entirely) on task completion. "This organization is always slow to respond to unplanned context change. "There is however another way to look at an organization. The `real' organization is made up of the networks of relationships people have within (and outside) the `formal' organization. As a network, this `real' organization ... Read More: |
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