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Classics on Leadership

Plutarch, Thucydides, and Homer (oh my!)
Mary Pat Campbell
Feb 25, 2024
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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.

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The original articles:

Part 1: Leadership Books - the Classics

Part 2: The Classics, Part 2

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Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The Iliad by Homer

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