{"id":111078,"date":"2017-11-29T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:06:34","slug":"lincoln-leadership-and-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/29\/lincoln-leadership-and-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Leadership And Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_n0kOLTsDBsw\/SHY3nAaNN_I\/AAAAAAAAAVQ\/O5LXDMmcrWQ\/s1600-h\/lincoln+lawyer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221421961247012850\" src=\"https:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_n0kOLTsDBsw\/SHY3nAaNN_I\/AAAAAAAAAVQ\/O5LXDMmcrWQ\/s400\/lincoln+lawyer.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>What  qualities in Abraham Lincoln made him such an outstanding leader? Why  did this man with less than one year of formal education and practically  no political experience become such an excellent writer, politician,  and president? <\/div>\n<div>Doris <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Kearns<\/span> Goodwin, author of the best-selling &#8220;Team Of Rivals&#8221; book about Lincoln  and his cabinet, has identified ten characteristics of Lincoln&#8217;s  personality which in her opinion made him such a brilliant leader. She  encourages us today to look for these same qualities when trying to  decide who we will elect as our next president. <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The  capacity to listen to differing points of view &#8211; this was the concept  behind Lincoln appointing former political rivals to his cabinet. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability  to learn on the job &#8211; Lincoln learned as he grew into the job.  Experience doesn&#8217;t mean everything as my previous post explains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Willingness to share credit for success &#8211; Lincoln shared credit for successes with his cabinet and generals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Willingness  to share blame for failures &#8211; like Harry Truman, Lincoln took equal  credit for failures when necessary. Compare this to recent presidents  who hang their cabinet members out to dry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Awareness  of own weaknesses &#8211; Lincoln realized he gave people too many chances.  Think how much better we&#8217;d be off in our country today if Bill Clinton  and George W. Bush would admit their weaknesses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability  to control emotions &#8211; Lincoln often would write a letter to someone who  had aggrieved him, but then would never send it. <\/li>\n<li>Know  how to relax &#8211; Lincoln&#8217;s sense of humor saw him through some of the  darkest days of the Civil War. Not that he found the war to be funny,  but he tried to combat his grief over it through funny stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Manage  directly by &#8220;walking around&#8221; &#8211; Lincoln often visited with soldiers and  tried to meet with ordinary people to get a handle on public opinion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Strength to adhere to goals &#8211; Lincoln never <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">wavered<\/span> in his goals to see the Union restored.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to communicate goals and vision &#8211; the one quality which escapes nearly every politician of our time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This list was <a href=\"http:\/\/hr.blr.com\/whitepapers.aspx?id=78571\">found<\/a> at HR.BLR.com, a Human Resources website. It reported on Ms. Goodwin&#8217;s  lecture at the 2008 Society for Human Resource Management (<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">SHRM<\/span>) convention in Chicago, where she identified these ten qualities of a great leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What qualities in Abraham Lincoln made him such an outstanding leader? Why did this man with less than one year of formal education and practically no political experience become such an excellent writer, politician, and president? Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the best-selling &#8220;Team Of Rivals&#8221; book about Lincoln and his cabinet, has identified ten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}