Leadership through history, human behaviour, and hard miles
If leadership is about showing the way, then Socrates was the ultimate master of the art. In his time, the world was only vaguely understood, and his primary guides were perhaps the great Greek works, such as The Odyssey and the tragedies of Euripides. There was no media to amplify his message, yet he managed
Socrates was a gadfly, a persistent questioner who roamed Athens engaging people in conversations and challenging their beliefs. His inquiries often focused on examining the assumptions underlying deeply held convictions. Using a gentle and gradual approach, he probed carefully, exposing contradictions in reasoning. This technique, known as the Socratic method, became a cornerstone of critical
Leaders have always been fascinating to study, and throughout history, people have sought to understand what makes them stand out. In the 19th century, disciplines such as psychology and sociology were still in their infancy, and the scientific method was not widely applied to social phenomena. Thomas Carlyle, a prominent social philosopher of the 19th
Learning from Seneca Seneca’s influence on Western thought is monumental. Among those inspired by his ideas are intellectual giants like Descartes, Rousseau, Diderot, Dante, Chaucer, and Montaigne—a veritable roll call of Europe’s intellectual aristocracy. Born around the start of the Common Era, Seneca was a towering figure of his time. He served as the tutor