Dwight D. Eisenhower, official presidential portrait \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
You do not lead by hitting people over the head \u2014 that\u2019s assault, not leadership.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
And, yes, he did eventually resign his five-star generalship and become president of Columbia University. \u00a0And then the thirty-fourth president of the United States.<\/p>\n
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He knew something, perhaps, about leadership.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Carentan, Normandy, France<\/p>\n
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