Lincoln On Leadership Analysis
Lincoln on leadership
The book Lincoln on leadership provides an overview of the Abraham Lincoln presidency, in addition to his leadership style. The author discusses Lincoln’s leadership qualities using tangible examples of Lincoln’s performance as a leader. The book examines Lincoln’s leadership around four broad areas from the life and work of Abraham Lincoln such as the people, character, endeavor, and communication. The book presents leadership principles and lessons accumulated from the author’s careful examination of the life of Abraham Lincoln. The main character of the book was Abraham Lincoln the sixteenth president of the United States of America. A few other characters mentioned in the book included secretary of the treasury Salmon P. Chase, the secretary of state, William Steward, secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton, army generals and the commander of the Confederate …show more content…
The story of Lincoln offers a leadership style to aspire to with many principles that are applicable to nursing practice. The book had a positive message and provided an opportunity to reflect on current leadership skills and accordingly ways to improve those skills. The reading provided the chance to reflect on what it takes to be an effective leader. It also provides tangible difference between a leader and manager. My “take away” message from the book is the important of being a visible leader. As a leader being in touch with people a serve and work with is the best way to get information. Leaders need to be committed to the organization cause and interpersonal collaboration. A message I took away from this reading was never act out of vengeance or spite. The book also offers therapeutic ways to handle anger such as writing letters to get out frustration. As a nursing leader I aspire to consistently display kindness and empathy to everyone I interact
The book Lincoln on leadership provides an overview of the Abraham Lincoln presidency, in addition to his leadership style. The author discusses Lincoln’s leadership qualities using tangible examples of Lincoln’s performance as a leader. The book examines Lincoln’s leadership around four broad areas from the life and work of Abraham Lincoln such as the people, character, endeavor, and communication. The book presents leadership principles and lessons accumulated from the author’s careful examination of the life of Abraham Lincoln. The main character of the book was Abraham Lincoln the sixteenth president of the United States of America. A few other characters mentioned in the book included secretary of the treasury Salmon P. Chase, the secretary of state, William Steward, secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton, army generals and the commander of the Confederate …show more content…
The story of Lincoln offers a leadership style to aspire to with many principles that are applicable to nursing practice. The book had a positive message and provided an opportunity to reflect on current leadership skills and accordingly ways to improve those skills. The reading provided the chance to reflect on what it takes to be an effective leader. It also provides tangible difference between a leader and manager. My “take away” message from the book is the important of being a visible leader. As a leader being in touch with people a serve and work with is the best way to get information. Leaders need to be committed to the organization cause and interpersonal collaboration. A message I took away from this reading was never act out of vengeance or spite. The book also offers therapeutic ways to handle anger such as writing letters to get out frustration. As a nursing leader I aspire to consistently display kindness and empathy to everyone I interact