ABSTRACT
Re-imagining the Office is a call to arms for all those concerned with workplace design; with the engagement of employees; with the practical task of nurturing the culture of knowledge, innovation and transformation that are now seen as key to future competitiveness in business. The playwright must have been inspired by the fact that Jupiter had first turned Lycaon, the cruel Arcadian king who had deliberately refused to acknowledge him, into a wolf. In fact, Lycaon had ignored the "sign" he was given "that god was come", and even dared to challenge Jupiter by offering him an anthropophagous banquet prepared with the roasted limbs of a hostage slaughtered for the occasion. The rift between men and gods in the myth, which was familiar to Shakespeare and to most of his contemporaries, is depicted as a refusal of acknowledgment, a sacrilegious disowning of the guest, or of the hostage for that matter.
