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70 THE WISDOM OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT first CEO’s protégés took over. Finally, the drastically different cultures commingled. Integration of cultures in corporate America can easily take more than a decade. We saw Alexander’s offer of early retirement backfire, initially. This tells us the obvious: In mergers, consider how various strategies will be treated before you act. Anticipate responses contrary to that which you wish to happen.
Leadership Process Two: Building Alliances 71 15: Battle at Gaugamela How, you might ask, can destroying an army build alliances? The Greek and Persian cultures could not be merged while a Persian army could be fielded. Sometimes you have to destroy to build. After winning battles at Granicus and Issus, conquering Tyre, and then wintering in Egypt, Alexander swept east toward the Persian heartland—modern-day Iran and Iraq. By the spring of 331 B.C., Darius had assembled a formidable army, whose size is variously misreported for propaganda by ancient authors. It is universally acknowledged that it was much larger than the Greek army because, upon engagement, the Persian flank extended well beyond Alexander’s. Upon arriving at the artificially leveled field of battle, Alexander’s soldiers confronted an army that was fatigued from having stood to all night. The battle was met with an oblique line, in order to give the smaller Greek army an opportunity to create and exploit a breech in the line, which is exactly what Alexander did. He and his Companions (his elite cavalrymen) personally chased Darius from the field (a story made famous by the image on the mosaic tile floor at Pompeii), causing a general rout even among the much larger Persian army. The chase after the rout continued well into the night. (Reports of casualties vary, at one extreme reporting a loss of 500 soldiers for Alexander but 100,000 for Darius, which further supports the extreme disparity in size between the two armies.) Darius escaped, but he was
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FOREWORD Alexander the Great as a l
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