Sep 10, 2024
Stories from the Book Crucible
Leadership: Abraham Lincoln on the Character to Build a Team of
Rivals
The best people possible. That’s who Abraham Lincoln drafted for
his Cabinet during the most precipitous time in U.S. history. And
most of them weren’t the biggest fans of the country’s 16th
president.
This week, in the latest episode of our series within the show,
STORIES FROM THE BOOK CRUCIBLE LEADERSHIP, we examine how Lincoln
managed to achieve such momentous results by assembling a team of
rivals.
Key to his success, Warwick explains, was Lincoln’s character and
the humility that flowed from it, allowing him to surround himself
with men who had what it took to help him win the civil war and end
slavery … even if they didn’t much care for their boss when they
started working for him.
In the end though, because of his lack of ego and his ability to
forgive slights both big and small, Lincoln’s team came to view
him, as one of them said, “as the best and wisest man he had ever
known.”
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