Posted on 05/28/2011 12:36:29 PM PDT by decimon
It was the leadership skills of the rulers and not the bondage of slavery that motivated the labourers to toil hard in building the ancient Egyptian pyramids, claims a top leadership guru.
Indonesia-based Arthur Carmazzi will soon come out with a book arguing how the leadership skills of the rulers of Egypt were responsible for building the giant structures regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
"Various researches have already shown that the labourers were not slaves. It was more about getting work done through leadership skills, rather than by slavery and exploitation. Even today we look at those tombs with amazement as to how they were built in the ancient ages. In my book, I will discuss how the labourers were motivated," Carmazzi told PTI here.
The best-selling author and leadership trainer was in the city recently to give a motivational lecture for a fundraising event of Calcutta Park Street Round Table 34.
To be released this August, the book titled 'Team Leadership Lessons from the Great Pyramids' will have case studies on how the builders treated the workers, how they tried to build up a rapport with their large workforce and how they ultimately won their trust.
"It is very interesting to learn how even thousands of years ago, when even the word management was not born, the rulers got their task done by applying leadership skills effectively. It is an excellent example of what difference can leadership skills make," said Carmazzi, ranked as one of the top ten most influential Global Leadership Gurus by Gurus International.
(Excerpt) Read more at ptinews.com ...
It wasn’t leadership skills or slavery—it was Religion that built the Pyramids. Those who worked on the monuments got better food, all the beer they could drink, pizza like food, the best medical care in the world (at that time). Workers didn’t have to pay taxes. Last but not least—they got Eternal Life! That’s a big deal! The Pharaoh promised he would remember them in the life to come—Everyone who worked on the monuments would party with the Gods in the Life-To-Come in the land of the west. Not a bad deal. I believe that by accident, the Ancient Egyptians created a national identity. Villagers from all over labored together for 3 months a year, talked and got to know each other—they were no longer just inhabitants of a village or State (nome) but Egyptians. Their unity helped their nation become one of the richest in the Ancient World.
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Well said. Also, the fact that there was a gov’t village near the construction site where lots of beer and bread was made doesn’t make the labor not slavery — slaves had to be fed, and the food was made by still other slaves. Imagine how great it must have felt to get a job making bread all day instead of hauling crap up ramps.
Weird coincidence. ;’)
That was in “Ben Hur”. :’)
AND religion...albeit an antiquidated, false religion, but still, religion.
It boils down to enmity toward the Biblical account, as far as disputing the nature of labor utilized to build the pyramids in ancient Egypt. What, were they supposed to be some sort of proto-GenX slackers, working 20 hours a week and kayaking the Nile the rest of the time?
Bondage and servitude was a fact of life for many and even sometimes the majority up to at least the 19th century, and still is in much of the world. We live in a time and a place with no slavery, which is a rare luxury and in fact an oddity in the grand sweep of history.
No wonder this guy is based in Asia. The Chinese et al. slave masters must love his theories. (= big $$$ for good old Artie.)
Carmazzi, ranked as one of the top ten most influential Global Leadership Gurus by Gurus International.
LOL. See what I mean?
Even more likely, the work was accomplished by various contractors who had specific specialties and were hired to accomplish the tasks at which they were expert.
The simple solution is the likely solution.
Is to day April 1?
LOL - Not quite. That's a very colloquial late Latin usage. The word villa, from the Indo-European "weik", actually means farm.
And the concept of the villein, technically a freeman owing labour service to his Lord as rent for his land, only arrived with the Normans.
The word "villein" is from the Latin "villanus", which originally meant farm worker, but which later (after Diocletian) came to mean serf, and serfs are what villeins in Britain were. They were not a free man paying rent with their labor. They were not free to leave.
The word probably came to Britain with the Romans. They certainly practiced serfdom. Neither the word nor the legal institution were introduced by the Normans though. Villeinage was already well established among the Saxons. The Normans certainly continued it though.
He did that because their presence bothered him ~ 'cause, among other things, plagues of frogs were sent, the first-born were killed, people got boils, the river ran red, .......
Someday you just gotta' read the whole story!
I believe that’s a much better response than slamming the idea that Israelite slavery existed at all.
Weren’t the larger pyramids dating back as far as 2,000bc anyway? (Actually I just looked it up. The Egyptian hay day of Pyramid building started around 2,700 bc and lasted about 1,000 years, until about 1,700 bc.)
I appreciate the response. I read too much into the pyramid/Israelite connection as it relates to the slavery Biblical accounts (issue).
Another leadership/management book from a dumbass, yawn.
The whole army of Egypt was sent out to bring back the Israelites, with the Pharaoh at their helm, and you term this as Pharaoh letting them go. Then you tell me, I need to read the whole account?
Wow.
The Pharaoh had seen ten plagues leveled on his people. His own son had been struck down during Passover night. Even then he hardened his heart and refused to let the Israelites remain free. This you refer to as him letting them go, as if it was a done deal.
If so, then how is it that he wound up on the bottom of the Red Sea being destroyed with the army of Egypt?
Later...
Interesting story about a large chamber discovered several decades ago that was full of mummies of the time. Later research proves that all the royals but Seti were present. He was missing.
Many analysts argue Seti is the pharoah who drowned which neatly explains his absence.
But yes, read carefully, he lets them go and reneges. Hence he is destroyed by God.
That's another one of those yin-yan things in the Bible. In the end all is complete and there are no loose ends.
BTW, this is a story about a large group that was tributary to the Egyptian ruler. Sure, it's slavery, but it wasn't individual mano y mano slavery ~ think of it more like the Iroquois among the Hurons. They paid in corn and dogs. Then, one day, they ran away to Central New York, climbed to the tops of the highest hills and dared the Huron to come after them.
The Hebrews were paying tribute in bricks.
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