{"id":880,"date":"2009-11-23T10:41:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T09:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=880"},"modified":"2009-11-23T10:41:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T09:41:52","slug":"richard-smith-on-learning-leadership-from-henry-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2009\/11\/23\/richard-smith-on-learning-leadership-from-henry-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Smith on learning leadership from Henry V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/home\/icons\/bmjh7648e.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Smith\" width=\"160\" height=\"110\" align=\"left\" \/>Last week I was privileged to hear a brilliant talk\u2014by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviermythodrama.com\/ourpeople3.asp?pagex=1&amp;staff=9\">Nicholas Janni<\/a>\u2014on what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_V_(play)\">Henry V<\/a> or rather Shakespeare has to teach us about leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry was, as most people know, a dissolute youth, hanging out with drunks, pimps, whores, and undesirables with the great Falstaff chief among them. But when his father, Henry IV, dies he turns away from those scoundrels. \u201cI know thee not, old man,\u201d he tells Falstaff: \u201cPresume not that I\u2019m the thing that I was.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Once he is king Henry needs a mission, a great cause\u2014and that mission is to conquer France not for wealth or for aggrandisement (although we may be skeptical) but for \u201chonour,\u201d something very important in the 15th century and not well understood in the 21st (except perhaps by the Mafia).<\/p>\n<p>Janni, a coach to chief executives around the world, is keen to promote what the Greeks called \u201cmythos\u201d as opposed to \u201clogos.\u201d We live in a world where logos\u2014business plans, strategies, and accountants\u2014are dominant, and we must rediscover mythos, the world of myth and imagination. \u201cImagination,\u201d said Einstein, \u201cis more important than knowledge\u201d: it shows us what can not simply what is.\u201d Studying Henry V allows us to enter the world of imagination and inspiration\u2014\u201cOh for a Muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be an effective leader you must look into your soul to understand your values and what is most important for you. You need \u201cspace to be with yourself,\u201d perhaps through reading, walking, or listening to music. \u201cUnto thine own self be true,\u201d says Shakespeare in Hamlet, and very crucially leaders must examine the overlap between their values and their work. The more overlap the better, and it\u2019s almost impossible for leaders to be effective if there is little overlap. You will be seen to be a fake. (I\u2019ve experienced doing jobs where there was little overlap, and I couldn\u2019t keep going.)<\/p>\n<p>The test of Henry V\u2019s leadership came at Agincourt\u2014in Act IV. His invasion of France had been a failure. Having got bogged down at Harfleur, lost 2000 of 6000 men, and run into winter, Henry and his army are retreating to Calais when they meet the French army, which has 10 times as many men. The French offer Henry a choice: a substantial fine and a safe passage to England or a battle and certain death.<\/p>\n<p>Henry choses a battle, and at 3 in the morning he walks among his troops as they can hear the French already celebrating the next day\u2019s slaughter. He is fearful, but he cannot show it. He must show a brave, fearless face to his troops, whom he calls not colleagues but \u201cbrothers, friend, and countrymen.\u201d This, says Janni, shows the importance of \u201cvisible leadership,\u201d being there when times are tough and giving your troops what they need.<\/p>\n<p>Next Henry meets privately with Gloucester. To him he can express his fears. Every leader needs a Gloucester, somebody to whom everything can be said\u2014not to advise them but to be there, to listen, and to provide support.<\/p>\n<p>Then Henry is called to a meeting, but first he must prepare himself. He must be alone. \u201cI and my bosom must debate a while.\u201d He must listen to his head and his heart in this \u201cdark night of the soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another lesson in leadership is the importance of listening to the troops. Henry goes in disguise and joins four ordinary soldiers sat around a fire. They think that they are going to die, that it\u2019s Henry\u2019s fault, and that he will get away while they die. In other words, he can\u2019t be trusted. These are hard things for a leader to hear, but leaders need to know the truth of what their troops are thinking. But they also need to be resilient, recognising that they cannot always be liked.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0(At this stage I thought of Gordon Brown, somebody of whom many had such hopes but who has disappointed most. The coming election looks like his Agincourt in that he is facing near certain defeat and a massacre of his troops. Does he know what his troops are thinking? Is his \u201cresilience\u201d to be admired or deplored? Will he manage a St Crispin\u2019s Day speech?)<\/p>\n<p>Next Henry lets it all hang out. In one of the longest soliloquies Shakespeare wrote he expresses all the miseries of being a leader: \u201cWe must bear all. O hard condition.\u201d This release is important for leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Henry launches into his great St Crispian\u2019s Day speech, connecting himself and his troops to his and their core values. He has overheard Westmoreland wishing they had more troops, and this gives him the theme of his speech. He connects troops with their core values not by listing them but by appealing to their imagination, asking them to imagine themselves years from now in a pub reveling in the glory of having been at Agincourt, showing their scars to those who are jealous that they were not there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are marked to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live The fewer the men, the greater share of honour\u2026.He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian\u2026From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we very happy few, we band of brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What leader would not love a Shakespeare to write his speech and an Olivier to deliver it for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was privileged to hear a brilliant talk\u2014by Nicholas Janni\u2014on what Henry V or rather Shakespeare has to teach us about leadership. 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