Franklin D Roosevelt Leadership Style

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Academics and historians consider Franklin D Roosevelt as one of the greatest US presidents the most important statesman of the 20th century, he is ranked alongside of Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson.
In fact, in 2011 United States Presidency Center voted him the best American president.
Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, had the leadership skills to guide the US through the Great Depression of the 1930s and most of World War II, led the Allies to victory over the dictators, won an unprecedented four consecutive elections, and did all this with a broken body.
So if we can’t learn any leadership lessons from his life, we’re not really trying.
Here are five.
First, keep your ends certain but your means flexible. In the period 1939-1941, Roosevelt

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