A strong leader knows when to rely on others and is able to recognize the success of his team above his own. If you want to develop the skills of negotiation and conflict resolution, we suggest that you practice with the negotiation simulator Merchants. Motivation Motivation possibly is the most characteristic lesson from leadership.
Sharing and spreading the passion for a project is vital to get support from a team and work together to achieve objectives and goals. Lincoln had his principles always clear and struggled to put them into practice throughout his career.
Accepting criticism and advice Lincoln was a politician open to criticism and debate. Potter, an eminent historian of the South, concluded years ago that if Lincoln and the Confederate president Jefferson Davis had somehow swapped jobs , the Confederacy would have secured its independence.
In withstanding this effort and persevering against a determined military enemy, Lincoln left three noteworthy lessons about leadership: When fighting a lethal foe on home soil, he expertly managed top politicians; related well with the people; and dealt clearly with the military as commander-in-chief.
Lincoln built and led a Cabinet of great strength by accommodating dissent. Seward and Edward Bates. He sought advice on military matters, with daily briefings from his commanding general , Winfield Scott. He also asked for input on political issues — including those as important as the drafting and publication of the Emancipation Proclamation. While he welcomed differences of opinion, he did not shirk responsibility. On April 1, , Seward proposed declaring war on various European powers as an attempt to reunite the country.
Search submit. Mobile Menu Site Search Search submit. Virtual Programs. Saved Items 0. NW Washington, DC Save for Later. He was still learning about how to wage war by going to the Library of Congress and reading books on military strategy.
But in the end it was his inability to hurt people that made Lincoln keep McClellan on far too long. As a result, battles were lost, and thousands of soldiers died who might have lived had Lincoln fired McClellan earlier.
In your biography of Lincoln, you rely heavily on the intimate letters between wives and husbands. What will historians do without such letters in the future? Unfortunately, Lincoln left few personal letters, but Seward would write to his wife daily to tell her what Lincoln did that day or about some of the arguments that went on in the cabinet, and those letters provide a unique insight into what Lincoln thought and felt as great decisions were being made.
These were the days of no television. There was no TV or cable news or BlackBerrys. For historians, the biggest loss is going to be the time between the rise of the telephone in the s and the advent of e-mail in the s.
Today, at least we have e-mails, which are in some way reviving the art of letter writing. Obama took your book with him to the Oval Office. What else would you recommend he read? Obama does seem to have a sense of history, and were I to speak with him again, I would suggest that he read about other presidents going through difficult times. And since Obama is interested in the moments in history when people come together to produce change from the bottom up, he also might want to look at the Progressive movement at the turn of the twentieth century—which led to curbs on the giant trusts, pure-food-and-drug legislation, railroad regulation, and conservation measures—or the civil rights movement, to learn how it created the pressure that allowed the voting rights and desegregation acts to pass.
He was more impressed by their words. I think that appreciating them and their great promise is what makes you understand what hope is all about. Do you really have such hope when everything seems to be crashing down around us? Yes, I really do. The way the U. So there are only certain moments in history when great change can take place. Obama has that same great opportunity now.
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