In a recent post, I mentioned a company that uses Shakespeare plays for management training in business settings. The name of the company is
Movers and Shakespeares, and they've done very well consulting large organizations such as Pfizer, the U.S. military, JP Morgan Chase, The Boeing Company, and other big-name corporations. Browsing through their site, I was able to see that they use "The Taming of the Shrew" (which I am reading this week) for their training on Change Management. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the private content of their training--but maybe it's not so unfortunate after all. I actually have a decent amount of exposure to Change Management because I work for a company,
Change Anything, that helps organizations and individuals overcome tough problems and change for good.
Since I don't have access to the
Movers and Shakespeares training, I'm going to create
my own training, or at least identify a few important change concepts that I've learned from the play. And rather than focusing on a business setting, I'm going to list a few ways concepts from the play that will help us sustain
personal change. To be fair, I'm borrowing some ideas from Change Anything; the application of these concepts to "Taming of the Shrew" is my original thinking, but the concepts themselves come from Change Anything.
