"Shakespeare has been a staple of management training for a long time," writes Harriet Rubin in the New York Times. "But only in the last few years have programs been started that use Shakespeare’s works to teach chief executives the vulnerabilities to which the powerful are susceptible."

One of the programs that Rubin highlights is ASC's own Leadership Program, which has helped executives in business, government, and non-profit organizations take their place center stage. Unlike other leadership or management programs, the ASC's approach uses Shakespeare's language to help managers keep things honest.

"Shakespeare's language is not old English," ASC Founding Executive Director Ralph Alan Cohen told Rubin for her story. "It's young English. It has all its hormones and is full of life. Organizations try to hide the force of human truth in every kind of Latinate term we can find, like 're-engineering or 'Six Sigma.' Shakespeare empowers people to trust their own language, not the bureaucratic line."

Read the whole article on the Times website.