The Founding Fathers on Leadership – Travel With Troops
- Hold regular, informal gatherings that provide enjoyable opportunities for immediate and continuous personal communications
- Remember that two-way communication has a tendency to create and strengthen emotional bonds.
- To form a just idea, you must be on the spot.
- Keep people out of trouble by keeping them busy.
- Link your mission to a greater cause. Provide people with a broader understanding of what they are really fighting for.
- Lead by example.
- When in a desperate situation, head down to the river and personally supervise the entire operation.
- Retreat when you must. Live to fight another day.
- During periods of relative inactivity, harass.
- Ride to the sounds of guns.
- The more frequent the human contact, the more progress will be achieved.
- When outnumbered, keep at a distance. Neither fight nor totally run away.
~ Donald T. Phillips, The Founding Fathers on Leadership