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Lincoln's Leadership Qualities

What enabled Lincoln to pull together all these rivals into a cohesive team?

  • A profound self-confidence
  • Empathy -- he understood why others thought the way they did even when he disagreed
  • Always shared credit with others
  • Repaired injured feelings as soon as possible
  • Would take responsibility for his subordinates' failures
  • When angry, would write a hot letter, and then put it aside
  • Understood his own moods -- so when facing a setback, he would always go to where it happened to boost morale
  • Knew how to relax -- went to theater over 100 times during the Civil War
  • Made himself accessible to ordinary people -- anyone could get an appointment

Posted by Kevin Holland on August 22, 2006 10:25 AM |

Comments

Informative on both intrinsic and practicle levels -- and funny, too. What more could you ask!

Posted by: Peggie Thorsen | August 23, 2006 03:14 PM

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