The Emperor's Question: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Leadership There exists a threshold between greatness and ruin—thin as a knife's edge, vast as an ocean. On one side of this precipice stands every thriving empire; on the other, the bleached bones of forgotten kingdoms. Twenty-three centuries ago, a man named Chandragupta Maurya discovered this truth. The Sovereign Who Ruled Half a Continent Picture, if you will, an emperor whose dominion stretched from the snow-crowned peaks of Kashmir to the sun-drenched shores of Karnataka, from the rugged mountains of Afghanistan westward to the fertile plains of Bengal. Millions bowed before his throne. Armies marched at his command. Wealth flowed into his coffers like rivers converging into the sea. And yet. Even with all this power, all this territory, all this gold—even emperors lose sleep at night. Chandragupta Maurya was no exception. The Midnight Counsel One fateful evening, beneath oil lamps flickering like anxious thoughts...