{"id":79397,"date":"2022-09-23T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=79397"},"modified":"2022-10-03T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T17:36:28","slug":"leadership-lessons-from-abraham-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/leadership-lessons-from-abraham-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Lessons From Abraham Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What made Abraham Lincoln such an extraordinary leader? What lessons can modern-day leaders draw from Lincoln&#8217;s leadership?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the moment he stepped into the president&#8217;s role, Lincoln was guided by his values, which informed all his actions and decisions. Although Lincoln did consult with his cabinet, he always reserved the final decision for himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are two leadership lessons from Abraham Lincoln. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-lesson-1-consult-together-decide-alone\"><strong>Lesson #1: Consult Together, Decide Alone<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first leadership lesson from Abraham Lincoln was &#8220;consult together, decide alone.&#8221;While you should consult with your employees on possible courses of action, Phillips argues that <strong>all final decisions you make must be yours and yours alone<\/strong>. This strategy gives you the best of both worlds:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>By consulting with your employees, you get access to different ideas and viewpoints. If you use one of their ideas and it works, Phillips suggests you give them credit\u2014this encourages your employees to continue doing good work.&nbsp;<\/li><li>By making the final decision alone, you ensure that your course of action fits your overall vision of how your organization should run. In addition, if the decision doesn\u2019t work as planned, Phillips explains that you can shoulder the blame. By not blaming your employees for ideas that don\u2019t work out, you\u2019ll maintain their respect and won\u2019t discourage them from offering new ideas or suggestions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Phillips outlines how Lincoln would often \u201cconsult together and decide alone\u201d to help encourage and guide his employees. By offering praise or accepting blame, he subtly pushed those under him to do what he wanted\u2014if he wanted a general to be more aggressive, for example, then he\u2019d praise their aggressive actions or accept blame for an aggressive decision that failed. By using this strategy, Lincoln still had control over what his employees were doing, but he also made them feel like their victories were their own\u2014encouraging them to continue doing good work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Historians note that <a href=\"https:\/\/jmp.princeton.edu\/events\/abraham-lincolns-invention-presidential-war-powers\">Lincoln\u2019s decisiveness came to define the role of the presidency during times of war and crisis.<\/a> Though for Lincoln this often meant consulting with advisors and other politicians, it also often meant overriding their will\u2014and overriding portions of the Constitution itself. These historians note that Lincoln invented the idea that the president could suspend certain rights during wartime\u2014most notably habeas corpus, which requires that people detained for a crime be brought before a court where they can be lawfully charged. The legacy of these decisions is mixed: While scholars like Phillips argue that these decisions represented necessary decisiveness in the face of a major threat, others argue that they created dangerous precedents that later presidents would abuse.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-lesson-2-plan-and-persevere\"><strong>Lesson #2: Plan and Persevere<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Making your own final decisions helps you plan and persevere<\/strong>\u2014something that Phillips says every leader should do. He argues that you should create a long-term plan for your organization and then consistently stick to it. This doesn\u2019t mean you should refuse to change your course or micromanage every single detail, but instead that you should set goals and have a general idea of how you\u2019re going to reach them. By creating a plan and sticking with it (despite any obstacles), you\u2019ll be able to set and maintain clear expectations for your employees regarding what they should do and how they should do it. This will help them do the kind of work you want them to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: For more advice on <em>how<\/em> you can create a long-term plan, the authors of <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/extreme-ownership\"><em>Extreme Ownership<\/em><\/a> outline <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/extreme-ownership\/part-iii#checklist-how-to-make-a-plan\">several factors important for planning:<\/a> resources you have available, risks you might encounter, contingency plans for those risks, and how to explain your plan in a simple and concise way. When you keep these factors in mind, you\u2019ll create a realistic plan that\u2019s flexible and easy to understand\u2014all of which are important for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-overcome-obstacles\/\">overcoming obstacles<\/a> and succeeding.)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, from the moment he came into office, Lincoln had a plan, explains Phillips. Lincoln wanted to reunite the country and abolish slavery, and every action or decision he made tried to serve that end in some way. In addition, Lincoln ensured that these goals were clear to those underneath him\u2014and ended up replacing many generals and cabinet members who either couldn\u2019t or wouldn\u2019t work toward them. Phillips argues that consistently pushing toward these goals helped improve Lincoln\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/methods-of-decision-making-crucial-conversations\/\">decision-making<\/a>, as it prevented him from stalling his own efforts or accepting short-term gains that would harm him in the long run.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/abraham-lincoln-stance-on-slavery\/\">Lincoln on Slavery<\/a><\/strong><br><br>Most historians disagree with Phillips\u2019s claim that Lincoln always intended to abolish slavery. Instead, they argue that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2010\/10\/11\/130489804\/lincolns-evolving-thoughts-on-slavery-and-freedom\">Lincoln\u2019s views and goals regarding slavery changed over time.<\/a> While he always saw slavery as morally wrong, he initially saw it as politically necessary for preserving the Union. Because of these priorities, Lincoln ran on a platform that argued against the <em>extension<\/em> of slavery into the territories\u2014<em>not<\/em> for the abolition of slavery where it already existed. He thought that instead of immediately freeing all slaves, the nation could slowly diminish and dismantle slavery over time and send former slaves to Africa.&nbsp;<br><br>However, during the course of the American Civil War, Lincoln eventually changed his mind\u2014writing the Emancipation Proclamation to immediately free all Confederate slaves; no longer publicly discussing the idea of sending former slaves back to Africa; and, finally, successfully pushing for the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which permanently abolished slavery. This shows that, unlike what Phillips claims, Lincoln wasn\u2019t always working toward abolition and actually <em>deviated<\/em> from his earlier plans by writing the Emancipation Proclamation.&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What made Abraham Lincoln such an extraordinary leader? What lessons can modern-day leaders draw from Lincoln&#8217;s leadership? From the moment he stepped into the president&#8217;s role, Lincoln was guided by his values, which informed all his actions and decisions. Although Lincoln did consult with his cabinet, he always reserved the final decision for himself. 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