Lincoln’s Masterclass In Crisis Management: Three Key Lessons

Paul Wilson
7 min readMay 24, 2020
Photo by 🇨🇭 Claudio Schwarz | @purzlbaum on Unsplash

Great leaders never really die. They wait patiently in their graves, ready to serve again if the country they loved, or the cause they espoused, is threatened anew. So it is with Abraham Lincoln, arguably the greatest statesman of all time.

Lincoln was an exceptional, almost mystical being. He dealt with pressures that would have shattered the nerves of a…

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Paul Wilson

Former Head of Community Mental Health Services and Strategic Lead for Prevention and Wellbeing, in South West England, UK. Student of Stoic philosophy.