ABSTRACT
William Shakespeare was an insightful and astute student of human nature and human behavior.1 He lays before us the good, the bad, and the ugly of politics and power and the precarious nature of the human condition. He reaffirms that no one is perfect and that all of us, leaders especially, are a composite of good and evil inclinations. This was his genius and why we find him so relevant in our own time. His insights into leadership and the use and abuse of power by kings and commanders gives us instructive images of power and principle.
