Tag: Historical Leadership Lessons

The Library That Wanted to Contain the World — A Lesson in Scope Management from Ancient Alexandria
1. When Curiosity Became a Project More than 2,300 years ago, in the thriving Egyptian port city of Alexandria, a king named Ptolemy I Soter envisioned a structure that would immortalize knowledge itself.His dream? To build a library that would gather everything ever written — philosophy, mathematics, poetry, astronomy, medicine, even ship logs. It wasn’t…
