The Name

We take our name from Mieza, the palatial school where Aristotle gave Alexander the Great a view of the world that centred on a broad and integrated understanding of leadership and strategy. The students at Mieza were the pool from which to draw future generations of leaders.

As future leaders, Alexander and his Companions needed to:

• be prepared for solving complex, intricate and unforeseen problems whose solutions might not lie in any well-defined subject area or speciality

• think on their feet, make tough choices and  recognise patterns among different types of problems

• work collaboratively with one another in imagining and then shaping the future of their empire.

According to best selling author Partha Bose, “Mieza was where Alexander’s mind was trained to look for facts and patterns, and look for them in a variety of sources, places and people so as to formulate a solution. … Alexander and his colleagues learned to feed off one another’s perspectives, gauged one another’s moral standards, realised how one or another might view or solve a certain problem, integrated their various perspectives, and behaved like true colleagues who grew with and on one another. The collaborative interactions would build mutual respect and trust – bedrocks of professionalism.”[1]

At Mieza we see a certain attitude as indispensable to modern business, including ours:

-         continuous learning, sharing and transferring of knowledge with our alliance partners and our clients

-         the relentless pursuit of our strategic objectives

-         leaders who both inspire and develop their people.

The school at Mieza can still be visited a little to the east and below modern Naousa in northern Greece.