Lincoln On Leadership – Chapter Two

I’m currently reading the book Lincoln on Leadership. I wanted to share the chapter notes because they’re so good.

Chapter Two – Build Strong Alliances

• Wage only one war at a time
• Spend time letting your followers learn that you are firm, resolute, and committed in the daily performance of your duty. Doing so will gain their respect and trust.
• Etiquette and personal dignity are sometimes wisely set aside.
• Invest time and money in better understanding the ins and outs of human nature.
• Remember, human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.
• Showing your compassionate and caring nature will aid in you forging successful relationships
• When you extinguish hope, you create desperation.
• You must remember that people  who have not even been suspected of disloyalty are very adverse to taking an oath of any sort as a condition of exercising an ordinary right of citizenship.