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The speaker argues that an organization able to delegate to competent people and replace them after death or resignation can avoid succession crises and the resulting anarchy that might enable a rival to seize power.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“Sepoys. So I think this is an underrated thing of just...”
“be yeah being able to delegate competent people and then like being able to replace them uh one after another if they get killed or if they resign or something there's not going to be some crazy succession crisis that creates this anarchy that then somebody else can swoop in and take control”Play from 1:30:42Report a misattribution
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