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Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN ONE OF YOUR BEST PEOPLE HAS A SERIOUS CHARACTER FLAW? Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase never let go of his singular goal to become President. The...
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Abraham Lincoln hired some of the most ambitious and prominent people he could find for cabinet positions and advisors. Although that might seem like Lincoln was inviting a group of back-stabbers into...
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CABINET MEMBERS CONTRIBUTED, BUT GENERALLY FELT THEY WERE WASTING THEIR TIME. On the one hand, Abraham Lincoln did what a good manager should have done before the advent of email. He asked for...
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