LEADERSHIP NEVER MORE NEEDED: 2/4: Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders, by Jeffrey D. McCausland (Author) Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
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🗓️ 13 November 2023
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https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tested-Gettysburg-Leadership-Lessons/dp/1642934534
In order to be a truly effective leader, it is necessary to learn as much as possible from the examples of history—the disasters as well as the triumphs. At Gettysburg, Union and Confederate commanders faced a series of critical leadership challenges under the enormous stress of combat. The fate of the nation hung in the balance. Each of these leaders responded in different ways, but the concepts and principles they applied during those traumatic three days contain critical lessons for today’s leaders that are both useful and applicable—whether those leaders manage operations at a large corporation, supervise a public institution, lead an athletic team, or govern a state or municipality.
In the twenty-first century, leadership is the indispensable quality that separates successful organizations from failures. Successful leaders communicate vision, motivate team members, and inspire trust. One must move both people and the collective organization into the future while, at the same time, dealing with the past. A leader must learn to master the dynamic requirements of decision-making and change
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| 0:00.0 | This is a |
| 0:05.0 | CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor and it's a pleasure to speak to |
| 0:10.0 | Colonel Jeff McCausen, the United States Army retired, the author Jeff McCausen of the book |
| 0:14.8 | Battle Tested Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders. |
| 0:19.4 | It is July 1st, 1863. John Reynolds commands three corps, the left wing of the Union Army. |
| 0:27.2 | He identifies that Gettysburg up ahead of him is likely to be a major battle. He pushes in with his advanced marching |
| 0:36.0 | corps. There is one particular unit that we now call the Iron Brigade. It's made up of men from |
| 0:42.1 | the Midwest, in particular Wisconsin. |
| 0:45.0 | That's what he has to throw into a battle where Beaufort's men are reeling back. |
| 0:50.0 | Now, Jeff, this is a tough one because John Runnels is much admired you know Gettysburg |
| 0:55.0 | battlefield very well there's a statute to where he fell and yet and yet why was he so far up front |
| 1:01.8 | the commander of three corps? |
| 1:04.0 | That's a great question. In fact, he was not only the commander of three corps, John. |
| 1:07.8 | He had been given, we call the military, operational command of that entire left wing of those three corps. |
| 1:14.3 | So in total for operational purposes, he was in command of 25,000 union soldiers. |
| 1:21.2 | They arrive on Gaysburg, as you said, they go to McPherson's Ridge with the Iron Brigade. |
| 1:27.0 | Reynolds has been decisively engaged and they are now moving the cavalry out to the flanks and the Iron Brigade and the infantry are now taking over the centerpiece of the battle. |
| 1:37.0 | Reynolds moves well forward and begins to position individual regiments. |
| 1:42.8 | And he gets to a certain area where the Iron Brigade is, |
| 1:45.7 | and there is about 840 men from a regiment |
| 1:48.5 | from Wisconsin. |
| 1:50.4 | Reynolds actually rides up, only guy now, and horseback in that area amongst the |
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