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OPINION: The Julius Caesar third-party contingency playbook

A bronze bust of Julius Caesar is displayed in the lobby at Caesars Palace on May 19, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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What financial business leaders can learn from the Roman general.

Dependency without contingency is a strategic weakness. Two thousand years before modern resilience frameworks and ISO standards, Julius Caesar seems to have understood this principle better than most. During the Alexandrian war for instance, when his enemies contaminated part of the city’s water supply to destroy his troop through thirst,

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