The Key to Abraham Lincoln’s Leadership

Lincoln had a tough childhood, to say the least. After his mother died, the young Lincoln and his sister were forced to eat nuts and hunt for squirrels. With less than a year of formal schooling, Lincoln taught himself to become a lawyer, and the profession was full of major failures, and so were many of his election campaigns. Out of depression, he admitted, ‘I don’t expect anyone to ever remember me for anything.’ But what kept him going was his reservoir of resilience and capacity for growth and self-improvement. His signature strength was empathy, which shone as forbearance or emotional discipline, and helped him manage monumental crises, like the Civil War. (Source HBR)

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