12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. In this episode, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are on a 10-part summer series on leadership lessons from biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives. Each week we will pair an ancient Greek and Roman to learn about their lives, the comparison and contrast between the two men and what leadership lessons with might draw from their lives. In today’s episode we look at the Greek (Spartan) Agis and the Tiberius Gracchus, focusing on land reform in Ancient Greece and Rome. Highlights include:

• Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.
• Lives of Agis and the Tiberius Gracchus.
• Comparison in the lives of Agis and the Tiberius Gracchus.
• Land reform in ancient Greece and Rome.
• The role of the Plebians.
• What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives Agis and the Tiberius Gracchus

Resources
Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer