Were Lincoln alive today what would his response be to the immense and complex issues confronting the United States of America? In Lincoln's day the issues facing the country dating from Lincoln's first political speech (1838) until his death in the opening of his second term (1865) were momentous to his generation, just as the issues facing the country in the early 21st Century are immense to its generation. The people of Lincoln's day needed leadership. The people of the United States today also need leadership-not just any kind of leadership-but leadership that is anchored solidly on the fundamental principles and practices of the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence. Within the understanding that people of Lincoln's generation were as people are today in their essential characteristics, good and bad, join in an investigation that utilizes Lincoln's own words from his early career and adapts them in principle to the practices of today. Lincoln was a great leader who rescued the Union and restored the country. We can learn from his leadership-if we simply take the time to read and then apply what we learn into the contemporary circumstances that define our issues.

When people are combined on work teams on the basis of agreements of essence and essential core values, their work environments become places where their talents and abilities reflect heart-felt longings for excellence in contribution that demonstrate proper alignments of people and production, proving this unalterable premise: people are more important than the products they produce. Industrial Strength Solutions Build Successful Work Teams is a book for any organization that wants to grow its people and improve its production. From creating a team to strengthening its function, the book provides step-by-step practical applications of leadership and team principles that work. Do you want to help create and involve yourself in the workings of a team where people are treated as valuable and therefore produce value-added contributions, or do you want to be satisfied with work groups as usual where production is too often consumptive of the people who produce it? The answer to that question will give meaning to the assimilation of the context and content, the principles and practices described in Industrial Strength Solutions.

Few leaders have shaped the course of history as significantly as Abraham Lincoln. Calling the United States of America "the last best hope of earth" in correspondence with Congress in 1862, Lincoln not only bore the brunt of a Civil War that nearly destroyed that hope permanently, he rescued a nation in the process and that hope became reality. Lincoln's Leadership-If You Want Success, Lead Like This addresses living leadership principles and practices of a master leader, a gifted and highly intelligent individual who won the war and accomplished his stated goals though his victories required extreme sacrifice and ultimately cost him his life. If you're the leader in your organization you will benefit greatly from reading this book. Learn Lincoln's leadership and why it worked. To do so, learn the environments and the effects. Then apply the lessons of his Civil War leadership to events and circumstances of today. Lincoln's Leadership-If You Want Success, Lead Like This highlights remarkable and enduring leadership principles and practices that Lincoln embraced. It shows how these leadership truths can and should be exercised in contemporary business and personal interactions with others. When they are framed within the context of positive desires for the betterment of mankind, their results can be nothing short of breathtaking, meritorious, positive, uplifting, encouraging, hope-inspiring, and long lasting. Great leadership lessons like those of Lincoln endure because they are founded on solid and enduring truth. It is up to the current leader to learn and embrace these bedrock truths and utilize them fully in their "real life" situations. Lincoln's Leadership-If You Want Success, Lead Like This provides enduring models of tried and tested principles. Great leaders will learn and emulate them.

If you are "in charge" of anything, or anyone, the question is not whether you are leading, it is how. The choices you make, purposefully or not, influence those who look to you for direction. Leaders model the principles that drive them. Principled leaders invest time and transfer values to their followers to build stronger individuals, develop resilient teams, and grow legacies that last. Leadership Is- reveals the quality of your leadership, what kind of leader you can be, and provides winning strategies and practical techniques for leaders at any stage of life and career. If you are a leader, you are creating your legacy. Leadership Is- will help you finish well.

Leadership Works Advanced Study Guide for L.E.A.D. is a learning companion to L.E.A.D.- Learning, Education, Action, Destiny. This curriculum and the book comprise 52 leadership studies, principles in practical application, one lesson for each week of the year. Learn, educate, and act. Produce stronger relationships and superior functions on your core team. Live what you learn and teach. Your team's destiny will develop and living legacies will form.

L.E.A.D.-Learning, Education, Action, Destiny is a compilation of 52 leadership lessons designed to present leadership principles in practical application, one lesson for each week of the year. L.E.A.D. comprises a collection of leadership truths to read, a teaching tool to sow productive seed, and a reference manual to revisit in thought and deed. Use the book to empower your core team as you reinforce concepts and practices within yourself. Learn, educate, and act. Form a destiny that leaves a positive legacy of impact, influence, and investment.

Go From the Night by Glen Aubrey comprises journeys of thought and meditations on life. The poetry and prose explore and question characteristics of human condition and endeavor. The reader s beliefs, sources of stimulation, means of expression, and methods of life application become proof points of acquired knowledge, inspired wisdom, required action, and aspired destiny. Who you are, what you know, how your goals are achieved, and why, are vital considerations. Discovering and living the answers to lofty questions such as these demand perseverance for the student and teacher, the follower and leader. Much is at stake. Desires born from within form legacies observed from without. You and those you touch are the beneficiaries.