Lincoln Speaks to Leaders: 20 Powerful Lessons for Today's Leaders from America's 16th President

by Gene Griessman, Pat Williams, Peggy Matthews Rose

Overview

What if you could get leadership advice directly from the man universally recognized as one of America's most admired presidents, Abraham Lincoln himself?

And then what if you could hear from a well-known contemporary marketplace leader about functional ways to apply those lessons today?

In this unique book, you'll be able to do just that, thanks to the creative lessons offered by Lincoln writer, actor, and playwright Gene Griessman. To drive the lessons home, NBA executive Pat Williams offers his trademark wisdom, humor, and practical insight based on his rich and varied personal experiences. If you want your leadership life to pop in a way that spells resounding success, make sure this book is on your shelf, easily within reach. You'll want to refer to it again and again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781601940285
Publisher:	Advantage Media Group, Inc.
Publication date:	02/01/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	177
Product dimensions:	8.96(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

GENE GRIESSMAN, PhD, is a renowned Lincoln portrayer, an award-winning TV host, and author. He is widely recognized for his expertise on leadership topics.

PAT WILLIAMS, longtime NBA executive and basketball Hall of Famer, is currently leading an effort to bring Major League Baseball to Orlando. He is the author of well over a hundred books, many of them on leadership. Pat is the father of nineteen children and has twenty-one grandchildren.

PEGGY MATTHEWS ROSE (Lake Forest, CA) has partnered with Pat Williams on the book "Read for your Life" and is currently working with Williams and Dr. Eugene Griessman on "Leadership the Lincoln Way".

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: History Lessons to Profit By
Chapter 2: What To Do When Relationships Go Bad
Chapter 3: The Benefits of Slow Thinking
Chapter 4: Youʼre Not a Leader Unless...
Chapter 5: What Happened at Gettysburg̶and Why It Matters Today
Chapter 6: Success Comes from Within
Chapter 7: How to Learn By Listening
Chapter 8: How to Learn By Reading
Chapter 9: What to Do When Things Donʼt Work Out
Chapter 10: Improve Yourself
Chapter 11: The Importance of Diversity
Chapter 12: The Best Way to Avoid Failures
Chapter 13: How to Destroy an Enemy
Chapter 14: What to Do When You Donʼt Have a Roadmap
Chapter 15: Develop Your Inner Powers
Chapter 16: What Life is Made Of
Chapter 17: Your Name is Your Brand
Chapter 18: Harnessing Depression
Chapter 19: Techniques of Effective Communication
Chapter 20: On Finishing Well
About the Authors:
Gene Griessman
Pat Williams
Peggy Matthews Rose
Acknowledgments

Editorial Reviews

Gene Griessman, Ph. D, and Pat Williams, L.H.D., with the assistance of Peggy Matthews Rose, A. B., have composed one of the finest inspirational books based upon Abraham Lincoln's life and actions. Dr. Griessman is an international figure in the Lincoln field of entertainment as well as a serious professor in universities. Dr. Williams serves as a vice president of the Orlando Magic and has also written and lectured widely on leadership. Together these two writers have authored twenty chapters which inspire men and women to be the best that they can be every day of their lives. Griessman's chapters portray Lincoln as if he, himself, was reliving his life history for the reader. They are in the first person and are so very well researched and related that one forgets that it is Dr. Griessman who is actually narrating the story. In fact, he is famous for his lectures where he portrays Abraham Lincoln. His performances draw large audiences. Everybody can benefit from using this volume to better themselves and become more successful by never giving up. It is a most inspirational work based on Lincoln's own achievements and how he accomplished them.
—The Lincoln Herald, November 2009

From the Publisher

Though the unofficial Lincoln Bicentennial Publish-palooza is a crowded field, this stultifying leadership primer may be the most egregious entry to date. Switching off writing duties, Griessman (author and Lincoln portrayer) and Williams (public speaker and senior VP of the NBA's Orlando Magic) manage in 20 chapters to nullify the power of Lincoln's writing, reduce his accomplishments to a checklist of office to-dos, and yoke the 16th president's voice to tired self-help-speak like, "If you want to be successful... you must will that success into existence." Frequent, tone-deaf passages written by Griessman in Lincoln's voice aren't helped by his professional experience; in-character lines include "My name is Lincoln-Abraham Lincoln. And I've been dead for well over a century"; "I am a possibility thinker"; and "I began to learn to value diversity in the little settlements of the frontier." (Excerpts from Lincoln's own writing serve only to show up Greissman's act.) Williams, meanwhile, recounts stories from the front offices of various basketball teams, bizarrely synthesizing Lincoln's ideas with his own advice about visualization, thinking things through, and staying positive. Like unwelcome carpetbaggers in the reconstruction South, these authors seem less interested in spreading the word of Lincoln than in exploiting his moment.
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