Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  06/06/2012 02:10 AM Report

We hear Oliver Platt describe his character.

"Touchstone" is often anachronistically thought to be a witty or clever fool. However, it is referenced often in the text that he is a "natural" fool.

Henry Cloud takes from the Bible three types of people including the fool:

#1 The Wise: When the Truth comes, they change SOMETHING (themselves, circumstances, etc..) Often, they’re even thankful for the feedback.

When you’re leading a wise person, talk to them, coach them--they’re listening! Resource them. The leadership challenge is to make sure they are a match for what you need. They can be wise but still need to be matched and gifted. You need to challenge them appropriately.

#2 The Fool: Often they are the brightest and most gifted. When the Truth comes to the fool, they try to adjust the Truth- the fool tries to excuse it, shoot the messenger, or blow it off. If the first reaction is external (something that has nothing to do with them.) They’re not happy, they’re angry, they’re having meetings after the meetings, and splits happen.

A nice, responsible leader has hope that the fool will start listening. This is the mistake. Even if they’ve had the conversation 63 times the leader still hopes. You’ve got to get hopeless before you act. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over. Do not confront the fool or mocker. Stop talking to them- they’ve stopped your vision and plan. Their allergy to reality has now taken charge. Stop talking about problems- “I want to have the conversation about the pattern about the problem of giving you feedback. When I’m hopeless, I’ve got to protect our vision.” I must protect our vision and culture of this team.

“Can you please tell me how talking to you can make a difference?” Get softer and show them love- talk to them at that level.

Next question, “If I do what you want and nothing changes, what do we do then?” You need to have consequences set. The pain of not changing has to be greater than changing. The win is that fools can change!

Leadership challenge with fools: Limit exposure, clear consequences and they get to make the choice

#3 The Evil. They want to inflict pain. There are truly bad people in the world. Destruction is in their heart. Reject a divisive person after one warning.

Strategy: Lawyers, guns, and money. It’s protection mode. Get ready- you have to call the police.

(Shakespeare and the Bible appear to cross paths.)

REMant  06/05/2012 11:05 AM Report

Nevertheless, the excellent Internet Shakespeare Editions website says:

"As You Like It specializes in literary satire. It is the most self-conscious of these three plays [the other two, Much Ado and Twelfth Night written at the same time] about such news items in the contemporary literary scene as the vogue of pastoral romance, the current craze for classical-style satire, the trendy 'humors' psychology and the fashionable pose of being melancholic, the affected mannerisms of the well-born traveler, the newfangled custom of picking one's teeth, the elaborate Italianate code for conducting duels, the conventional antithetical debate of court versus country, romantic platitudes about being in love 'forever and a day' and still more. The large cast of characters is designed to represent and satirize as many of these fashionable topics as possible." (See the rest of the informative introduction here: http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/AYL/intro/GenIntro/default/ and the huge list of classical literary allusions.)

As Santayana might have said: "Those who don't know the Bard, are doomed to repeat him."