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Book: Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
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  1. Donald T. Phillips _ Lincoln on Leadership:

    Trust, honesty, and integrity are exceedingly important qualities because they so strongly affect followers. Most individuals need to trust others, especially their boss. Subordinates must perceive their leader as a consistently fair person if they're to engage in the kind of innovative risk-taking that brings a company rewards.
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  2. Donald T. Phillips _ Lincoln on Leadership:

    No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent,
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  3. Donald T. Phillips _ Lincoln on Leadership:

    It is the sole responsibility of the leader to instill these values by constant preaching and persuasion. It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.
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  4. Donald T. Phillips _ Lincoln on Leadership:

    One of the most effective ways to gain acceptance of a philosophy is to show it in your daily actions. In order to stage your leadership style, you must have an audience. By entering your subordinate's environment – by establishing frequent human contact – you create a sense of commitment, collaboration, and community. You also gain access to vital information necessary to make effective decisions. Additionally, when personal contact is not possible, you can send surrogates to the field to obtain information.
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  5. Donald T. Phillips _ Lincoln on Leadership:

    If subordinates, or people in general, know that they genuinely have easy access to their leader, they'll tend to view the leader in a more positive, trustworthy light.
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  6. Donald T. Phillips _ Lincoln on Leadership:

    The governor is like the boy I saw once at the launching of a ship. When everything was ready, they picked out a boy and sent him under the ship to knock away the trigger and let her go. At the critical moment everything depended on the boy. He had to do the job well by a direct, vigorous blow, and then lie flat and keep still while the ship slid over him. The boy did everything right; but he yelled as if he were being murdered, from the time he got under the keel until he got out. I thought the skin was all scraped off his back; but he wasn't hurt at all. The master of the yard told me that this boy was always chosen for that job, that he did his work well, that he never had been hurt, but that he always squealed in that way. That's just the way with the governor. Make up your minds that he is not hurt, and that he is doing his work right, and pay no attention to his squealing. He only wants to make you understand how hard his task is, and that he is on hand performing
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  7. Donald T. Phillips _ Lincoln on Leadership:

    Never crush a man out, thereby making him and his friends permanent enemies of your organization.
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  8. Donald T. Phillips _ Lincoln on Leadership:

    Invariably an organization takes on the personality of its top leader, providing that individual is in touch with the members of the organization. If the leader is petty, the subordinates will be petty. But if the leader is encouraging, optimistic, and courteous, then the vast majority of the workers in the organization will be as well.
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  9. Donald T. Phillips _ Lincoln on Leadership:

    Pettiness, spite, and vengeance are emotional reactions considered to be beneath the dignity of a leader.
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  10. Donald T. Phillips _ Lincoln on Leadership:

    The only way you can motivate people is to communicate with them." Effective communication also shapes values for people by "not only bringing company philosophy to life . . . ," as Peters and Austin put it, but also "helps newcomers understand how shared values affect individual performance.
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  11. Donald T. Phillips _ Lincoln on Leadership:

    James MacGregor Burns wrote that "the Leader's fundamental act is to induce people to be aware or conscious of what they feel – to feel their true needs so strongly, to define their values so meaningfully, that they can be moved to purposeful action.
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  12. Donald T. Phillips _ Lincoln on Leadership:

    It is your duty to advance the aims of the organization and also to help those who serve it. If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens you can never regain their respect and esteem"
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