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Summary: Leadership as evidenced by a true leader
Review: "Lincoln on Leadership" is a cross between a Lincoln bio and a management primer. Author Donald Phillips said he took Sandburg's Lincoln bio for leisure reading at a week long management seminar and realized Lincoln was the epitome of everything that was discussed. He says leadership is a nebulous and abstract set of guidelines that is difficult to learn without viewing it empirically through someone like Lincoln.
Phillips uses Lincoln's presidential years to demonstrate the virtues/techniques of MBWA, honesty and integrity, persuasion, courage, goal-setting, paradox, decisiveness, humility, and sense of humor. I only wish he could have drawn more from Lincoln's pre-presidential years as an example of how a leader is made. This is a short and easy-to-read book that should be a must for any study of leadership.
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Summary: A Short Education On Leadership
Review: A great book for learning to deal with people. After you finish reading about Lincoln's executive strategies in "Lincoln On Leadership", I suggest you go on to read the plain-talking practical anecdotes on human relations in Dale Carnegie's "How To Win Friends", and learn the philosophical basics of leadership in Norman Thomas Remick's plain-talking book "West Point: Character Leadership Education: Thomas Jefferson", to make the reading experience of Donald T. Phillips' "Lincoln On Leadership" even more useful and enlightening than it is unto itself. It's a short education on leadership.
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Summary: A Short Education On Leadership
Review: A great book for learning to deal with people. After you finish reading about Lincoln's executive strategies in "Lincoln On Leadership", I suggest you go on to read the plain-talking practical anecdotes on human relations in Dale Carnegie's "How To Win Friends", and learn the philosophical basics of leadership in Norman Thomas Remick's plain-talking book "West Point: Character Leadership Education: Thomas Jefferson", to make the reading experience of Donald T. Phillips' "Lincoln On Leadership" even more useful and enlightening than it is unto itself. It's a short education on leadership.
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Summary: A very informative and educational book for all leaders.
Review: After I read this book, I found myself looking at my leadership role alittle differently. I'm in the Air Force and currently supervise 10-15 young airmen. Lincoln's principles are life lessons that should never be forgotton and always used. I wish that books like this one will find their way onto all the desks of our country's top leaders, as well as individuals such as myself. P.S. The Clinton quote on the cover is humorous to say the least.
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Summary: Great book on actual leadership skills and how to use them
Review: As a business consultant this is the book I use in my classes with business leaders and CEO's. It's a wonderful book that reflects and teaches the leadership skills of a great man and compassionate leader. I wish more leaders of corporations and this world would learn from this book and apply what it represents.
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Summary: A Winning Combination
Review: Donald Phillips does an excellent job using history to teach leadership lessons. You can tell he has done his homework on his research;his bibliography contains over 40 books and the notes about the individual chpaters are very thorough in documenting where his material came from. Phillips' research provides the reader with a number of interesting stories about a great leader. In addition, the points of emphasis at the end of each chapter remind the reader of important lessons learned from each chapter. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Best Leadership book I've read in a long time!
Review: Donald Phillips has done an excellent job of structuring this book so it is easy to find topics you are interested in. He makes Abraham Lincoln come alive! It is very interesting to have history mixed in with current leadership practices.
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Summary: Insightful!
Review: Donald T. Phillips has written a solid and engaging book. It has been hailed by critics and leaders in business, sports, and every other arena as a common sense masterpiece of historical and character analysis. The book is divided into key lessons, each representing an aspect of President Abraham Lincoln's leadership style, as revealed through his words and actions. A beautifully written intimate history, the book shows Lincoln in action. The discussion reveals clearly how any leader can apply Lincoln's timeless principles about communication, character, endeavor, and people. We [...] recommend this book to anyone interested in leadership, Lincoln, or history.
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Summary: Phillips on Lincoln and Leadership hits the mark.
Review: Donald T. Phillips' book is a wonderful study of leadership through the first-hand experiences of one of history's most masterful leaders--Abraham Lincoln. Phillips introduces a host of specific principles known by many to be effective in leading people and organizations, but takes them to the next level by clearly illustrating Lincoln's use of them through many specific incidents. These incidents bring his example of effective leadership alive, bringing credibility not only to the principles, but to Lincoln. Each chapter's end quite conveniently summarizes the main points allowing the reader to ponder its usefulness to our own leadership roles. One of the best books I've read on leadership--and I've read many. Highly recommended.
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Summary: For Once...Leadership Plainly Illustrated
Review: I found this book to be irresitibly readable and chock full of information and material immediately applicable to life and life in the business world. Mr Phillips does a wonderful job of illustrating leadership principles through Lincoln's style and approach to leading and governing. This method makes it extremely easy for the reader to understand the concepts being conveyed. If Lincoln was able to save the Union in the most extreme condition by use of these principles, it's easy to imagine that they could work in various other situations. Mr. Phillips doesn't ignore Lincoln's weaknesses, but uses them and how Lincoln tried to handle them as teaching material to demonstrate how leaders can be effective in spite of their personal shortcomings.In short, this is one of the more valuable, interesting, AND usable books that I have read in years. I have ordered "Leadership and the Founding Fathers" and hope to gain as much from that as I have from the Lincoln book.
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