What were the main reasons Julius Caesar of Rome became as successful as he did?(Not the play by Shakespeare.)?

Gaius Julius Caesar was Rome's best general in the first century B.C. He was well known and respected throughout Rome because of his publication of what would be now considered battle reports in Caesar's Gallic Wars. The actual narrative reads like a general's account of battles, defenses, tactics, numbers of troops committed, Roman and enemy casualties and prisoners taken. The folks back in Rome must have eaten it up. He was elected a Consul and allowed himself to become straddle the transition from the Roman Republic to Imperial Rome. He was inated for undermining the Republic, not in the name of civil rights but for causing the Senate to lose its power.