Given that experience often enhances wisdom and knowledge, many leaders in decision-making positions feel that their retirement would be detrimental to their organizations. But businesses or political bodies need new energy and new ideas -- and even if their aging leadership remains vigorous and innovative, they still face a pressing need to cultivate the next generation of executives.
That pesky succession problem, it seems, plagues us as much as it did the ancient Egyptians. In a political context, the need for change can be even more fundamental, though it is a rare leader with the vision to acknowledge this.
George Washington not only declined to be a king, he insisted on setting a precedent of two terms as a measure to protect the Republic, a precedent later codified into the Constitution. Leaders who care about their organizations, about preserving their own legacies, will focus their energies on grooming and training a worthy successor before the waning days of their time in office.
Next page. Licensed to. Remember Me. Receive updates, exclusive content and important information by joining The Octavian Report email list. Please complete the form below and become a part of our community. You are reading 1 of 3 free articles. She reigned peaceably, building temples and monuments, resulting in the flourishing of Egypt. After her death, Thutmose III erased her inscriptions and tried to eradicate her memory. Hatshepsut was born circa B. The only child born to the Egyptian king Thutmose I by his principal wife and queen, Ahmose, Hatshepsut was expected to be queen.
After the death of her father at age 12, Hatsheput married her half-brother Thutmose II, whose mother was a lesser wife — a common practice meant to ensure the purity of the royal bloodline. During the reign of Thutmose II, Hatshepsut assumed the traditional role of queen and principal wife. Thutmose II died after a year reign, making Hatshepsut a widow before the age of Hatshepsut had no sons — only a daughter, Neferure — and the male heir was an infant, born to a concubine named Isis.
Initially, Hatshepsut bore this role traditionally until, for reasons that are unclear, she claimed the role of pharaoh. This was not an attempt to trick people into thinking she was male; rather, since there were no words or images to portray a woman with this status, it was a way of asserting her authority.
One of her most important advisors was Senenmut. Unlike other rulers in her dynasty, she was more interested in ensuring economic prosperity and building and restoring monuments throughout Egypt and Nubia than in conquering new lands.
She built the temple Djeser-djeseru "holiest of holy places" , which was dedicated to Amon and served as her funerary cult, and erected a pair of red granite obelisks at the Temple of Amon at Karnak, one of which still stands today. Hatshepsut also had one notable trading expedition to the land of Punt in the ninth year of her reign. Because of its remote location, Abu Simbel went undiscovered until In , when the construction of the Aswan High Dam threatened to flood the site, UNESCO embarked on an unprecedented, year rescue effort that relocated both Abu Simbel temples—stone by stone—to higher ground some feet farther up the cliff.
He held the prestigious post of high priest of Ptah, the patron god of Memphis. He was entranced by the thousand-year-old landmarks from the Old Kingdom that surrounded him in Memphis.
He inspected and restored several temples and pyramids. A millennium after his death, he was revered as a scholar and featured in a series of stories about his accomplishments. All rights reserved. Culture Reference. Who was Ramses II? A limestone relief depicts Ramses II smiting his enemies. Abu Simbel, monumental temple. Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. An elevated view of the Ramses temple and the Nile shoreline. Prince Khaemwaset.
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