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3 crisis-leadership lessons from Abraham Lincoln

  • Written by Adrian Brettle, Lecturer in History, Arizona State University
A meeting of President Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet.Internet Book Archive/Flickr

In March 1861, as Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as president, the United States faced its greatest crisis: its sudden and unexpected dissolution. Seven of the then 31 states had already voted to secede from the Union.

What he did in the following months and years...

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