Analysis: What eight presidents who weren’t elected can teach us about leadership
President Harry S Truman announces the government seizure of the steel industry on April 8, 1952. By Jena McGregor Jena McGregor Reporter covering leadership issues in the headlines Email Bio Follow April 17 at 7:47 AM CEOs who find time in their busy schedules to write a book usually opt for a memoir or a business how-to that relives their own successes.
I found an interesting correlation between my day job and this. I’m an insomniac. I work in an industry that’s so focused on the future and innovation, and I could either meditate to keep myself sane or I could focus on my form of meditation -- digging into chapters of history that I love. By spending time writing this book, it had the ripple effect of also giving me a surge in my day job.
David McCullough’s book on Truman answers the question of how someone who’s so ill-prepared for one of the most seminal moments in history can end up achieving such extraordinary success when on paper they shouldn’t have. The takeaway from McCullough’s book is that it’s a two-to-tango dynamic. The leader has to have the confidence and the decisiveness to make uncomfortable decisions, but at the end of the day they’re also at the mercy of the people around them.
The other thing that’s striking to me -- of all the accidental presidents -- is not a single one of them was integrated into the administration. Imagine in a business, the successor being deliberately orphaned from the organization, and not having any familiarity with how the business runs, what’s going on in the business, who does what.
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