“I didn’t want to come out to the East Coast at all. “I wasn’t really talking to any Ivy League schools,” McNally recalls. They came from the mouth of first-year Harvard basketball coach Tommy Amaker in 2007, and they marked Amaker’s appeal to the San Francisco guard to come play for him in the Ancient Eight-something that McNally, up to that point, had never considered. But when Oliver McNally heard them, his life was changed forever. "So came the Captain with the mighty heart.One question."I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it.As Koehn concludes her study of Lincoln, " May all who aspire to lead with worth and dignity learn from the life and leadership of Abraham Lincoln." But for leaders facing the current COVID-19 pandemic crisis today, there is much to be gained from reading about Lincoln's style and brand of leadership. One could certainly argue that the kind of leader that Lincoln was comes along once in a hundred years or so. He, as Markham suggests, was the ridgepole that kept the rafters from falling down, "when the judgement thunders split the house." If, as Lincoln once famously said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand", it was Lincoln's leadership that kept the house from falling apart. Wrenching the rafters from their ancient rest, So came the Captain with the mighty heart Īnd when the judgement thunders split the house,
Lincoln's crisis leadership is perhaps best described in a poem written by Edwin Markham, called "Lincoln, Man of the People" (one of my personal favorites!):
That, as president, he refused to ignore the larger consequences of his actions on men and women who had little or no agency, that he saw beyond the immediate moment and owned the responsibility of affecting a vast future, and that he rejected an ethical callousness about the choices he made are demonstrations of leadership that we yearn for today. As the writer and Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn writes in her latest book, "Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times:Ībraham Lincoln was made into an effective leader - first from the inside out and then from the outside in - as he developed and changed throughout his life.
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Whenever I am facing troubles in my professional life, I found solace in his words and deeds during his own personal crisis. Lincoln, by far, is my favorite President. He is the quintessential example of what it means to be a "crisis leader," and it would have been interesting to see how he would have led us through the Reconstruction period had he not been assassinated. In the end, he not only preserved the Union, but he also abolished slavery. Through it all, Lincoln was a source of constant strength, resolve, and commitment to preserving our Union. The American Civil War was a time of political and moral crisis. He led the United States during and through one of the most turbulent times in American history. Lincoln died, and a nation mourned (see Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain! my Captain!").įor many Americans, Lincoln is the greatest President in history. More than 150 years ago today, April 15, 1865, the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre on the previous night. There is another reason that April the fifteenth is an important day in history. As the Founding Father Benjamin Franklin once said, ".in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." Well, even in spite of the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has put our official tax day on hold for about 3 months, there's no escaping the fact that we will be paying our taxes this year. Today is April the fifteenth, and most Americans understand that under normal conditions their tax returns would be due today.
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