Lincoln's Leadership

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Laurie,

For an interesting perspective on Lincoln and Leadership, see the December 1st edition of “The Economist” and its business opinion column “Schumpeter.”

“Abraham Lincoln now regularly tops historians’ lists of the greatest American presidents. But he owes his greatness partly to the fact that he was an outsider on whom no sensible man would have bet. He made a series of bold moves - such as sending ships to supply Fort Sumter, thereby forcing the South to fire the first shot of the [American] Civil War-that his more experienced rivals might not have made. And he gave a series of nation-defining speeches that nobody else in the country could have delivered.”

For more go to:
Economist.com/blogs/schumpeter