I reach back to a two-parter I wrote in 2012 for the Stepping Stone, the newsletter for the Leadership and Personal Development interest section of the Society of Actuaries. My argument: read the classics — they’re chock full of stories relevant to leadership.
Episode Links
The original articles:
Part 1: Leadership Books - the Classics
Part 2: The Classics, Part 2
Project Gutenberg Links
Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius
Classics on Leadership