![]() The story that author Stacy Schiff tells in Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown, & Co, 2010) is the story of the struggle that eventually saw the end of Egyptian rule by the Ptolemies, the death of a Queen, and the victory of one ideology (autocracy) over another (republicanism). ![]() The rest is history – and the stuff of legend. It was about the Queen of Egypt, a woman named Cleopatra, and three leaders of the Roman Empire-Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian (later known as Caesar Augustus). But the story wasn’t about a corporation. No less a writer than William Shakespeare took this plotline and made the story famous. The woman, and the man whom she allied herself with, commit suicide. Eventually, and again to save her position and her company, she enters into an alliance with his successor-which also results in a sexual alliance-until a devious member of the other corporation’s board turns against them both, taking control of the woman’s business. The alliance ends, suddenly, when the rival corporation deposes her favorite. That cash is something sorely needed by the rival. Partly out of affection, but chiefly out of a desire to remain in control of her cash-heavy corporation. The apparent victor in that struggle approaches the woman’s company, and the woman forges an alliance-and an eventual sexual relationship-with the interloper. ![]() ![]() The corporation is threatened by a rival corporation, one short on cash but long on political influence, that has experienced a power struggle among its directors. ![]() Here’s a woman’s story that would make a great plotline.Ī woman has inherited her primacy in a major family corporation. ![]()
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