The Best Leaders Don’t Need to Be the Smartest Person in the Room
The smartest leader in the room isn’t necessarily the one with the most answers. Sometimes it’s the one who knows which questions to ask.
Abraham Lincoln
The View from Lincoln’s Steps
I am on the steps of Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace. The birth site of an American president. And it’s humbling.
No. Not just “humbling.” It’s humble. This humble cabin in which Lincoln was born is situated inside a proud Neoclassical memorial building made of both Tennessee marble and Connecticut granite. The cabin still has mud caked between the logs. The wood is rough and splintered. Just the way it was two hundred years ago.
The Dropout and the Rail Splitter
Hodgenville, Kentucky, looks like your all-American postcard town. Brick storefronts. Flawless Colonial houses. No flamingos in the yards. The kind of place where you’d expect to find Jimmy Stewart working at the drugstore soda fountain, and kids playing hopscotch on the sidewalk.
Defining MAGA
On July 17, 1980, Ronald Reagan accepted the Republican nomination for president. In his acceptance speech, he said, “For those who have abandoned hope, we’ll restore hope and we’ll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again!”