Lincoln On Leadership Flashcards
Lincoln drafted a statement of refutation regarding a misrepresentation of facts, called?
The Antietam Episode
Lincoln believed this should be practiced and cultivated
Extemporaneous speaking
No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal………..
Personal Contention
Lincoln’s leadership strategy of giving credit where credit was due.
Leading while being led
Lincoln’s Secretary of War
Edward Stanton
General relieved because of his “Cardinal Mistake”
General Fremont
General defeated at Second Bull Run?
General Pope
The “Honeymoon Period”
6 months
Lincoln’s key failure in building a relationship with what general?
General George McClellan
True or False: your task will never be done unless you watch it every day and hour and force it
True: Your task will NEVER be done unless you watch it everyday and hour and force it.
Blockade of southern coast, seize the Mississippi River was known as….?
Anaconda Plan
Best vindication Against Slander
Truth
Abraham Lincoln’s two fundamental values…..
“the pursuit of liberty” and “equality”.
Lincoln’s Secretary of Treasury
Salmon P. Chase
The General who headed his army in the direction of Jonesboro, rather than Chattanooga in support of Rosecarns, Lincoln I reported to have bounced his stovepipe hat of the floor and cried “Damn Jonesboro”.
General Ambrose Burnside
Lincoln wrote a scathing letter to discuss his dissatisfaction with what general?
General George Meade
75 year old general
General Winfred Scott
Who was Lincoln’s Secretary of State?
Henry Seward
What General did Lincoln visit at Antietam in an attempt to light a fire under him?
General McClellan
What General was credited with taking the Shanandoah Valley under control
General Phil Sheridan
Salmon P. Chase claimed that who excepted undue influence on the President Lincoln?
Henry Seward
Who is quoted as saying “A good manager needs to listen as much as he/she talks”
Lee Iacocca
As per Lincoln on Leadership, Ernest Hemingway defines courage as…
“Grace Under Fire”
As per Lincoln on Leadership, Lincoln compares a vine killing a tree covering it’s trunk to..
Someone smiling in your face and stabbing you in the back.
“It’s like certain habits of men” Lincoln, as he compared a vine killing a tree by covering its trunk.
“It covers the ruin it makes”
Someone smiling to your face and stabbing you in the back.
