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