Prologue -- Power: For Good and for Evil -- Power Is a Freighted Idea: Understand It Before You Use It -- Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears a Crown: Promoted? Transferred? New Hire? Tips from the Master -- The Trusted Lieutenant: A Delicate Balance -- The Skipping King: Uses and Abuses of Perks, Pay, and Privilege -- Women and Power: Shakespeare's Education and Transformation -- All the World's a Stage: Business as Theater -- All the World's a Stage: Playing the Part -- Lend Me Your Ears: The Art of Persuasion -- The Search Within: Integrating Values, Vision, Mission, and Strategy -- Polonius's Paradox: Choices and Consequences for Man Alone and Man in Society -- The Choice and Master Deceivers of Their Age: What's Fair in Love, War, and Business -- Banish Not Your Jack Falstaff: The Value of Mavericks in Our Midst -- To Be or Not to Be: It's Up to You: Hamlet's Fatal Flaws -- Epilogue: A Woman -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.