Leader Evolution

CHAPTER 4

Stage Three: Alignment and Execution

From Personal Competence to Organizational Capacity

Life in the Matrix

“Iacta Alea Est”

There Julius Caesar stood on the banks of the Rubicon River, January 10, 49 bc. In defiance of the ruler Pompeii, he knows that returning from Gaul with his army and crossing the Rubicon onto Italian soil amounts to treason. If he is to avoid a civil war, he must lay down his command, and surrender his troops and weapons. But if he and his troops cross the narrow bridge, there is no turning back. They will have entered Roman territory in a state of war. With a burst of energy Caesar declares, “Iacta alea est”—“The die is cast.” He and his troops march onward to Rome, and as they say, the rest is ancient Roman ...