Legendary military principles may be used in today’s business

In 480 B.C. Xerxes, King of Persia, decided to attack Greece. Persia was the biggest power in the known world at that moment. Its domains stretched from Egypt to India and were inhabited by millions of men and women that had to pay homage and abundant tributes, feeling upon them the yoke of tyranny. All those infinite material and human resources were focused in a single goal: to subdue the small Hellenic peninsula and enslave its inhabitants.

Greece was the only remaining free country, given that 10 years before, in the Battle of Marathon, the Greeks had been able to defeat the Persian army, led at that time by Darios, father of Xerxes; an affront that lived in the heart of the Persian king and that could only be erased from History with Greek blood. So, Xerxes brought together an impressive army of between one and two million soldiers. This force crossed the sea and marched West and South over Thrace and Macedonia, entering Greece from the North by land. The army’s advance left behind death and destruction. Fear swept through Greece like a Tide, provoking an exodus from the cities. This time the message from Xerxes to the Greeks was crystal clear: surrender or death.   Leer más