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Jiang answers that Caesar chose Octavian over Antony because Caesar cared about talent and ability, not mere loyalty; Antony was loyal but volatile, while Octavian was more competent and level-headed.
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Talent
Jiang answers that Caesar chose Octavian over Antony because Caesar cared about talent and ability, not mere loyalty; Antony was loyal but volatile, while Octavian was more competent and level-headed.
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Jiang treats Philip's promotion and trust of Parmenion as evidence that Philip had unusual judgment of people and knew how to use talent effectively.
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"Okay? So, basically, he made the entire army loyal to him personally. So, he now has the power of God. The Roman people allowed..."
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"...as a genius, he doesn't care about loyalty. He cares about talent. He cares about ability. And Mark Antony was a notorious hothead. He..."
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"And he became determined to transform it. And what he recognized is, if I want to transform the army, I need to turn it..."
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"Even though Parmenion, he was not, he was born into the lower nobility. Okay? He certainly had some money. But Philip treated him as..."
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"First, the mission centralized talent by relying them around a grand ambition, exactly in the way John McCarthy did with his coining of the..."
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"...best universities in the Middle East. It has the best IT talent in the Middle East. It has the best human capital. Therefore, it..."
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"...best universities in the Middle East. It has the best IT talent in the Middle East. It has the best human capital. Therefore it..."
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"...criterion to generate wealth is how hard you work how much talent you have how much merit you have right the idea of merit..."
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"...American attitude of being open -minded of being generous of appreciating talent above everyone else okay. similar in that way in that yeah maybe..."
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"...America could extract from the world resources, and these resources include talent. Okay? So we have a situation where the best and brightest go..."
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"...interested in being able to maintain their best and brightest, their talent, their human capital. And this is the way it should be. If..."
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"...form of governance, right? As long as you enable people with talent and ability and ambition to climb up, they'll be happy and your..."
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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