Speed and charisma
Alexander the Great
Alexander is the momentum profile: audacity, battlefield genius, symbolic fusion, and conquest faster than institutions can mature.
The instrument of power.
Alexander shows speed as a political weapon. Victory follows victory until reputation itself begins to move armies and cities before the next battle is fought.
The Machiavellian lesson is tempo. Fortune favors the ruler who acts before enemies can form a stable picture of him.
The warning.
Momentum is not permanence. Alexander belongs here because charisma can conquer more quickly than it can govern, and succession exposes the difference.