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Great speeches from Great leaders – Alexander the Great’s speech at the Mutiny of Opis

A year before his premature death, Alexander the Great’s Macedonian troops rebelled as he appeared to be placing his Persian subjects in higher regard than his own countrymen. These fellow Macedonians had campaigned with him for a decade as he swept East to the Himalayas. In order to quell this mutiny, rather than use force […]

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The Story of Resilience – Captain James Riley

In August 1815, while sailing from Gibraltar to Cape Verde a merchant ship got wrecked in a fog off the Western coast of Morocco. Shipwrecked as they were on the edge of the Sahara they quickly ran out of food and more importantly, water. This was the unlucky fate of American Captain James Riley and

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What the Corporate World Can Learn From the Celts

Historical Leadership, Leadership Articles / george

When the Celts are described it can often be with a negative connotation. They have been described as barbaric. Barbarian, in itself, leads you to think of uncivilised, wild and warlike. The word Barbarian actually derives from the Greek expression to describe anyone who was non-Greek. In actuality, the Celts were anything but uncivilised. They

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