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October 2, 2015 Leave a Comment

Leadership Lessons from Ancient History

Ten qualities underlay the great captains’ success. The first nine are ambition, judgment, command, strategy, audacity, agility, infrastructure, branding, and terror. The tenth is different, something that happens to a commander rather than something he has — the quality of Divine Providence. Let’s look briefly at each of them.

— Barry Straus, professor of history at Cornell and author of Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar and the Genius of Leadership (Simon & Schuster, 2012).

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