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World Inc. Excerpts

Chapter 6:
Developing Leaders We Can Trust


10 Lessons:

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury

Lesson One: We are captive in our leadership options.

Lesson Two: Let's go back to school on social leadership.

Lesson Three: Leadership is about life in society.

Lesson Four: Leaders have articulate power.

Lesson Five: Lincoln as a model social leader.

Lesson Six: Leaders find new paths of growth.

Lesson Seven: Value shifts cascade social changes in business.

Lesson Eight: Capture a sense of elsewhere and adventure.

Lesson Nine: Learn from giants; be GE and HP and Toyota.

Lesson Ten: Cultures pick winners, not vice versa.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, 8 November 1863.
Photographed by Alexander Gardner (1821-1882)
SOURCE: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a53289
 


On Leadership

When the conduct of men is designed
to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming
persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old
and a true maxim, that a 'drop of honey
catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

— Abraham Lincoln

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