Great Books Ep 54. Aeschylus - The Suppliant Maidens part 2: Navigating the Unseen - Importance of Foresight in Leadership
Effective leaders try to visualize how the future could be based on things at play in the present. By foreseeing trouble, they avoid their organization from getting into bad situations.
“Have I not said without the people’s voice I will not and I cannot, King though I be, Do as thou'lt have me do?”
~ The Suppliant Maidens by Aeschylus (G. M. Cookson translation. p5. v397)
Brief Summary (lines 177 - 600)
Danaus, the father, assures his daughters that they have come to the right place to seek refuge and th…
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