by MIC-admin | Jun 8, 2021 | Marketer in Chief Excerpts
Rutherford Hayes was president during the “carpetbagger” era, where the struggle for power meant that people were bending the legislative apparatus to lock in control of resources. Rent seeking (regulatory capture) continues to this day, making it...
by MIC-admin | Jun 7, 2021 | Marketer in Chief Excerpts
Ulysses S Grant gives us a leadership lesson in the “Quiet Ego” – how to be strong yet understanding and yielding. Humility remains under-appreciated in leadership because we struggle with the supposed association with “weakness” – humility doesn’t mean that at all....
by MIC-admin | Jun 6, 2021 | Marketer in Chief Excerpts
Andrew Johnson had a great chance – as a Southerner who supported the Union, he could have been a great bridge, but he messed it up spectacularly. Johnson is a case study in how to contain the impact of a bad leader – in politics or in business: Publicly make the...
by MIC-admin | Jun 6, 2021 | Marketer in Chief Excerpts
Abraham Lincoln used humor to diffuse some of the tensest situations. The country deeply needed it, and it’s one of the most underreported aspects of his personality. Humor is still underused by politicians. If Lincoln could do it at the height of the Civil War, why...
by MIC-admin | Jun 5, 2021 | Marketer in Chief Excerpts
Bleeding Kansas was the last best chance to prevent the Civil War. It was a failure of imagination…and of audience segmentation. This chapter is an instruction manual for each current political party on how to reach out to members of the other side and crush their...
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