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History is full of types of tyrants, hopelessly out of touch with the plight of the commoners, ruthlessly chasing their own ambitions or hedonistic whims. But Caesar was a different kind of leader. Despite some bad press, in fact he never noticed himself as above the common Roman citizen. Although he certainly understood he was an extraordinary human being, he also considered himself as fundamentally one of the people, and acted like it. In his life and in his job, he created a fresh paradigm of management, and on the way, created the path to success for just about any leader in a intricate organization. In a very publication that Doris Kearns Goodwin has called "brilliantly made to draw management lessons from history", Philip Barlag uses dramatic and colorful incidents from Caesar's job to illustrate what modern market leaders can learn from him. Central to Barlag's debate is the difference between electricity and force. When leading his own organization, Caesar never used brute force to inspire his followers. Over and over he exercised a electricity rooted in his confirmed personal integrity and his essentially egalitarian relationship with the Romans. People implemented him because they wanted to, not because these were compelled to. Over 2,000 years after Caesar's loss of life, this continues to be the sort of loyalty every leader wants to encourage. Barlag shows how anyone can lead like Caesar.
