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Presidential Leadership Lessons for the Business Executive

Presidential Leadership Lessons from Woodrow Wilson, Part 1-Up to Presidency


Richard Lummis and Tom Fox begin a two-part series on leadership lessons from Woodrow Wilson. In this Part 1, we look at lessons from Wilson’s formative years in growing up in the South, his educational career, his academic profession and thought leadership, his Presidency at Princeton, his governorship of New Jersey, and the Presidential election of 1912. In Part 2, we will take up his Presidential years.
Highlights of this podcast include:

  1. Intro of Woodrow Wilson
  2. Discussion on the impact of slavery on Wilson and being a Southerner
  3. Academic Work History
  4. Professor at Johns Hopkins
  5. Publication of Congressional Government
  6. Move to Wesleyan
  7. Move to Princeton in 1992-textbooks on government
  8. President of Princeton-1902
  9. Achievements
  10. Seeds of character defects revealed?
  11. Health issues
  12. Governor of New Jersey
  13. Surprise Candidate- “it came to me unsought, unanimously, and without pledges to anybody about anything.”
  14. Reformist and turned back the Bosses?
  15. Nomination and Campaign of 1912
  16. Dark Horse Candidate
  17. Impact of William Jennings Bryan
  18. New Freedom platform – breaking up trusts and lowering tariff rates
  19. Leadership Lessons

Resources
Ten Ways to Judge a President
Woodrow Wilson Quotes
Woodrow Wilson-a Failure in Leadership
How Woodrow Wilson Lost the Peace
Woodrow Wilson-Life Before the Presidency
13 Leadership Lessons from WWI

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Greetings and Felicitations

John Aceti on Profiles in Leadership


In this episode of Greetings and Felicitations, I visit John Aceti, author of 7 books about people and places in the Hill County. We discuss John’s most recent book Profiles in Leadership. Highlights include:
·       John’s storytelling skill.
·       His endless curiosity.
·       The leadership styles of 18 persons he interviewed for the book.
·       What are their leadership philosophies?
·       What strategies did they use to succeed in their individual career fields?
·       What’s next for John.
Resources
Profiles in Leadership on Amazon

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Daily Compliance News

June 10, 2022 the $700MM Stolen Edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • $700 million stolen from Iraqi national bank. (News18)
  • Blatter and Plantini go to trial. (Reuters)
  • Why would Texas investigate Twitter? Politics, why else. (NYT)
  • SEC opens 2nd Ericsson corruption investigation. (WSJ)