In this article, John Psmith reviews Xenophon’s Anabasis as both a gripping ancient adventure story and a meditation on leadership under impossible pressure, using the retreat of the Ten Thousand to explore what it means to become an “operator”: someone who takes responsibility when institutions fail, keeps a fractious group alive, and cannot simply walk away once others depend on him.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thepsmiths/p/review-anabasis-by-xenophon?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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