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...authors, who both teach at the Wharton School, extol the virtues of this relationship art, which they define as the ability to win over colleagues, clients and customers without coercion, using emotionally intelligent persuasion. The authors draw on the experiences of political figures like Napoléon and Abraham Lincoln, as well as famous businesspeople...
Sixty years later, the Democrats faced another incumbent President: war hero Ulysses Grant. To oppose him they tapped Horace Greeley, an eccentric idealist and newspaper editor. Greeley had been an opponent of slavery (he urged Abraham Lincoln to abolish it even before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued) and a supporter of protective tariffs--all anathema to the Democrats of his day. But after the Civil War, Greeley's idealism found a new cause: reaching out to white Southerners by ending Reconstruction. The Democrats, eager to restore the political power of their Southern soul mates, were willing to overlook Greeley...
...been more than seven months since Obama declared his presidential candidacy, evoking Abraham Lincoln in a soaring speech on the grounds of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. But up to this point, there have been few signs that he poses a serious threat to Hillary Clinton. Her lead in national polls has solidified in the double digits, and her sure-footed campaign for the Democratic nomination is starting to take on the sheen of inevitability. Obama remains well behind her everywhere but in Iowa, site of the first presidential contest, where the two are locked in a tight...
...founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, which operates 40 boutique hotels and other properties, exemplifies San Francisco smarts in Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Conley's company was almost wiped out by the post-9/11 downturn. But the theories of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow provided "mouth-to-mouth resuscitation," says Conley, a Stanford M.B.A. (In miniature: Maslow believed that as their basic needs are met, human beings and companies are able to strive for higher goals.) Despite a few New Age-y concepts like "karmic capitalism" and a tendency to throw around phrases...
...ways of building support that bridge ideological disagreement,†he said. —Staff writer Abraham J. Riesman can be reached at riesman@fas.harvard.edu