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Crossing the Rubicon Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

Crossing the Rubicon Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
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Michael Ryall
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The time was 49 BC. The players were Julius Caesar and the members of Rome’s Senate. Caesar had shown himself to be one of the most gifted generals in Rome’s history: In a remarkable series of campaigns starting in 58 BC and conducted over approximately eight years, Caesar turned Gaul from a hostile territory into a pacified Roman province.

Michael Ryall
Michael Ryall
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Michael D. Ryall is a game theorist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, and Harry T. Mangurian Professor at Florida Atlantic University. His research is published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Harvard Business Review and Management Science. He is Founder and Director of the Mortimer J. Adler Fellowship in Transformational Leadership.
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