The Art of Discretion ... in the public service professions, by Tony Evans
CHAPTER 24
The Art of Discretion
Several years ago I saw a performance of Shakespeare’s King John. I had not seen the play before and one scene (Act 4, Scene 2) jumped out at me because it connected with material I had been looking at in the course of my studies of discretion. King John is a monarch striving (and failing) to control a restive feudal court…