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  1. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    no one knew better than Lincoln that words have consequences. In a world of tinder, he was determined to hold his rhetorical gifts in abeyance in order to reach across factions and avoid a single spark that could set loose an avoidable conflagration.
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  2. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    of bed rest. Thee feared that his son was
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  3. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    There are points of likeness in the seminal disasters that befell both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in the early stages of their careers. Both crucibles were precipitated by a combination of intimate, personal crises and public repudiation that seemed to crush their core ambitions. Both swore off politics or at least paid lip service to deserting politics forever. Both suffered severe depressions. Healing change had to come from within while they waited for the historical kaleidoscope to turn.
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  4. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    Do leaders shape the times or do the times summon their leaders?
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  5. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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  6. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    How had Lincoln been able to lead these inordinately prideful, ambitious, quarrelsome, jealous, supremely gifted men to support a fundamental shift in the purpose of the war? The best answer can be found in what we identify today as Lincoln's emotional intelligence: his empathy, humility, consistency, self-awareness, self-discipline, and generosity of spirit. "So long as I have been here," Lincoln maintained, "I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom." In his everyday interactions with the team, there was no room for mean-spirited behavior, for grudges or personal resentments.
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  7. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    Refuse to let past resentments fester; transcend personal vendettas.
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  8. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    Hit the ground running; consolidate control; ask questions of everyone wherever you go; manage by wandering around; determine the basic problems of each organization and hit them head-on; when attacked, counterattack; stick to your guns; spend your political capital to reach your goals; and then when your work is stymied or done, find a way out.
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  9. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    Great necessities call out great virtues."
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  10. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    beneath Lincoln's tenderness and kindness, he was without question the most complex, ambitious, willful, and implacable leader of them all.
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  11. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    What is well-spoken must be yoked to what is well-thought. And such thought is the product of great labor, "the drudgery of the law.
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  12. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    Put ambition for the collective interest above self-interest.
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