LINCOLN PRINCIPLES  - 1  ‘ Explain yourself in writing and offer advice on how to solve problems.

‘ You must seek and require access to reliable and up-to-date information.  ‘ Spend time letting your followers learn that you are firm, resolute and committed in the daily performance of your duty. Doing so will gain their respect and trust.  ‘

When you extinguish hope, you create desperation.  ‘ You must set, and respond to, fundamental goals ad values that you move  your followers.  ‘ Never crush a man out, thereby making him and his friends permanent enemies of your Organization.  ‘

People will be more willing to seek audience with ou, if you have a good reputation.  ‘ Remember: Your organization will take on the personality of its top leader.

LINCOLN PRINCIPLES - 2  ... Do the very best you know how - the very best you can - and keep doing so until the end.

- If you yeild to even one false charge, you may open yourself upto other unjust attacks. 
- Make consistency one of the main cogs in the machinery of your cooperation. 
- Don't surrender the game leaving any available cards unplayed. 
- Do less whenever you believe what you are doing hurts the cause, and do more whenever you believ doing more will help the cause. Try to correct erors when they are shown to be errors; and adopt new views so fast as they appear to be true views. 
-  Make no explanation to your enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can he if you explain, and they cannot have if you do't. 
- Avoid major conflict in the form of quarrels and arguements. You simply don't have time for it.
-  An entire Organization is never wisely sacrificed to avoid losing one or two small parts.

LINCOLN PRINCIPLES 3 ... œ Take advantage of confusion, desperation and urgency to exercise strong leadership.

- Seize the initiative and never relinquish it. 
- Don't give up all your key points of strength or the competition may "beat your brains". 
-  Never let your immediate subordinate take action upon your responsibility without consulting you first. 
- When making a decision, understand the facts, consider various solutions and their consequences, make sure that the decision is consistent with your objectives, and effectively communicate your judgement. 
- Remember that compromise does not mean cowardice.  œ Try ballots first; when ballots don't work, use bullets.

LINCOLN'S PRINCIPLES 4...  If you are a good leader, when your work is done, your aim fulfilled, your people will say, " we did it ourselves". 
-  Try not to feel insecure or threatned by your followers. 
-  Let the disputing parties work out their differeces by bringing them together and guiding their dailogue. 
-  Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail. 
- Write letters to your subordinates making the personal acknoledgement that they were right and you were wrong. 
-  When your subordinates come with good ideas, let them go aheaD and try. But monitor their progress. 
-  If your commanders in the field can't be succesful, neither can you or your executive staff. 
-  Never forget that your organization does not depend on the life of any one individual. 
-  The greatest credit should be given to those inyour organization who render the hardest work.

LINCOLN PRINCIPLES 5... á  Unite your followers with a "corporate mission". 

A  Set specific short term goals that can be focussed on with intent and immediacy by subordinates. 
-   Those leaders who achieve something at the head of one group will eclipse those who do nothing at the head of hundred.  á

 Sometimes it is better to plough around obstacles rather than to waste time going through nothing. 
-  Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today. 
-  Your war will not be won by strategy alone, but more by hard, desperate fighting. 
-  Your task will neither be done nor attempted unless you watch it everyday and hour, and forceit. 
-  Remember that half finished work generally proves to be labour lost.

LINCOLN PRINCIPLES 6...  Choose as your chief subordinates those people who crave responsibilities and take risks. 

- Go out into the field with your leaders, and stand or fall with the battle. 
- If employees gripe about one of their chief supervisors, and complaints are true, do not be afraid to remove him. 
- Give your followers all the support you can, and act on the presumption that they will do the best they can with what you give them. 
- Provide your managers a 3/5 month grace period to see if they will take action and perform adequately. 
- If they don't perform adequately, ease them out of power gradually, always giving them ample time to turn it around. 
- Beware of subordinates who keep piling up inforation without ever really accomplishing anythig.   Coach and counsel a new executive so that he or she may get off on the right foot.

Remember, you want him to succeed.   Do not forget that aggressive leaders tend to choose employees in their own image.  

Let the thing be pressed.

LINCOLN PRINCIPLES 7...  When the occasion is piled high with difficulty, rise with it. Think anew and act anew. 

-   Don't lose confidence in your people when they fail. 
-  Let your subordinates know that you are always glad to have their suggestions. 
-  If you never try, you'll never succeed. 
-  Except in matters of broad policy, encourage subordinates to take action on their initiatives, without waiting for orders.

-  Remember that the best leaders never stop learning.
-  Surround yourself with people who really know their business, and avoid "yes" men. 
-  Be quick and decisive at employing new advances and make every attempt at getting new weapons into your soldiers hands immediately.