Lincoln On Leadership

Question 1

Lincoln drafted a statement of refutation regarding a misrepresentation of facts, called?

Answer 1

The Antietam Episode

Question 2

Lincoln believed this should be practiced and cultivated

Answer 2

Extemporaneous speaking

Question 3

No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal………..

Answer 3

Personal Contention

Question 4

Lincoln’s leadership strategy of giving credit where credit was due.

Answer 4

Leading while being led

Question 5

Lincoln’s Secretary of War

Answer 5

Edward Stanton

Question 6

General relieved because of his “Cardinal Mistake”

Answer 6

General Fremont

Question 7

General defeated at Second Bull Run?

Answer 7

General Pope

Question 8

The “Honeymoon Period”

Answer 8

6 months

Question 9

Lincoln’s key failure in building a relationship with what general?

Answer 9

General George McClellan

Question 10

True or False: your task will never be done unless you watch it every day and hour and force it

Answer 10

True: Your task will NEVER be done unless you watch it everyday and hour and force it.

Question 11

Blockade of southern coast, seize the Mississippi River was known as….?

Answer 11

Anaconda Plan

Question 12

Best vindication Against Slander

Answer 12

Truth

Question 13

Abraham Lincoln’s two fundamental values…..

Answer 13

“the pursuit of liberty” and “equality”.

Question 14

Lincoln’s Secretary of Treasury

Answer 14

Salmon P. Chase

Question 15

The General who headed his army in the direction of Jonesboro, rather than Chattanooga in support of Rosecarns, Lincoln I reported to have bounced his stovepipe hat of the floor and cried “Damn Jonesboro”.

Answer 15

General Ambrose Burnside

Question 16

Lincoln wrote a scathing letter to discuss his dissatisfaction with what general?

Answer 16

General George Meade

Question 17

75 year old general

Answer 17

General Winfred Scott

Question 18

Who was Lincoln’s Secretary of State?

Answer 18

Henry Seward

Question 19

What General did Lincoln visit at Antietam in an attempt to light a fire under him?

Answer 19

General McClellan

Question 20

What General was credited with taking the Shanandoah Valley under control

Answer 20

General Phil Sheridan

Question 21

Salmon P. Chase claimed that who excepted undue influence on the President Lincoln?

Answer 21

Henry Seward

Question 22

Who is quoted as saying “A good manager needs to listen as much as he/she talks”

Answer 22

Lee Iacocca

Question 23

As per Lincoln on Leadership, Ernest Hemingway defines courage as…

Answer 23

“Grace Under Fire”

Question 24

As per Lincoln on Leadership, Lincoln compares a vine killing a tree covering it’s trunk to..

Answer 24

Someone smiling in your face and stabbing you in the back.

Question 25

“It’s like certain habits of men” Lincoln, as he compared a vine killing a tree by covering its trunk.

“It covers the ruin it makes”

Answer 25

Someone smiling to your face and stabbing you in the back.