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88 THE WISDOM OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT Inferences and Allegations Imagine you set out to exceed all the accomplishments of the greatest people to precede you. Whom would you look to for guidance? Alexander recognized, even late in his life, that he constantly had to aspire to even greater greatness. Leading Lessons Everyone needs a hero. Even heroic figures such as Alexander. Alexander’s hero was Homer and the heroes he wrote about. Alexander was hero to Caesar, Augustus, Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Louis the XIV (the Sun King), and untold others. Who are your heroes? Why are you reading this book but to aspire to greatness? The fact that you go to the trouble of reading it suggests that you choose great heroes. Let others know who your heroes are and why. I am convinced that one of the most important skills of a leader is storytelling. Stories relate compelling lessons. Not only can you influence people with your choice of story, but you’ll influence the perceptions people have about you by your choice of leader and story. Let others know who your heroes are; it may help to establish your claim to greatness, or at least help win succession tournaments.
Leadership Process Three: Establishing Identity 89 19: On Life and Death How we die says something about who we were. Alexander was a general who truly cared for his troops. It is said he knew the names of 10,000 of them. He was regularly observed treating his soldiers’ wounds himself, before he permitted his own wounds to be tended to. He shared their hardships on the march. His last act, while deathly ill, was to personally say good-bye to each member of his army. One might say his army was his identity. Alexander died in Babylon at age thirty-three, having covered more than 10,000 miles in just over ten years, conquering the greatest empire the world has ever known, integrating diverse peoples, introducing coinage, revolutionizing trade and commerce, and promulgating a common language and culture, among other accomplishments. Shortly after his closest friend, Hephaestion, died at Ecbatana, Alexander himself grew ill with fever. Toward the end, his army asked to see him and filed by. For each soldier, he raised his head and signaled acknowledgment with his eyes. Despite vulgate records and endless speculation, we do not know for sure what caused Alexander’s death. It was fairly sudden, possibly preceded by copious drinking (which was nothing new for Alexander). During the fever, he repeatedly bathed in the river. He ate little. Some speculate that he was not dead but rather just in a coma, because his body did not putrefy for weeks. He probably died of a tropical disease.
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PREFACE Leadership cannot be taught
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