Telamon…

Alexander THE Great (353-326 B.C.) is widely known as the only human to conquer the world. He became King at 20 and won most of his major victories before his 25th b-day.  I guess you could say he was on the fast track.  Here’s something you might find interesting…

He had two executive coaches during his run to the top.  

Yup.  Even world conquerers need a helping hand.  According to Steven Pressfield in his book, The Virtues of War, his coaches didn’t help him discover his strengths, didn’t help him understand his hardwiring, didn’t help him refine his freakin’ crazy big dream for Macedonia, didn’t help him with his communications skills, and didn’t help him understand the strategy nor the tactics of battle.  

What a couple worthless lightweights he had beside him.  All his coaches taught him were two rather simple things.  Here they are.  Do NOT miss this. Aristotle taught Alexander to reason.

Telamon taught him to ACT.

Whatever you are learning from your mentors, your coaches, your peers, your teams, your competitors, your teachers, your spouses, your friends and from the entirety of your life experiences, you will improve when you apply your learning. We could use a few leaders today who are disciplined in reason and, ACTion.

What would Telamon tell you today? Here, let me give you a hint. Telamon would tell you you’re waiting a bit too long…