Good Morning,
My current read is “The Genius of Robert E. Lee: Leadership Lessons for the outgunned, outnumbered, and underfinanced” by Al Kaltman (http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Robert-E-Lee/dp/0735201870). It is an interesting book broken down into 260 short lessons which span Robert E. Lee’s lifetime from childhood to his passing in 1870.
The list of positive traits of Robert E. Lee would fill a very long email. One of his attributed ‘failings’, though, was that he was honorable and civil to the end. I am not so sure that these are truly failings. Robert E. Lee did not like to offend people, and he may have waited too long at times to replace people, he maintained a personal value system and code of honor which truly impresses me.
If in the middle of a war where the enemy outguns, outnumbers and is well fed keeps on you, and your forces are ill-equipped and your governmental leadership is not a supportive as it could be, and you are watching young men dying for a cause every day AND you can maintain your values and honor through it, then WOW!.
Luckily in life we generally do not have all of these odds against us. Yes we have stress in many areas of our lives, but usually not to life and death 24/7.
We should be able to maintain our civility and values and honor in our day to dealings with others.
We can be honorable in the little things we do every day. We can keep our promises, and be kind and considerate to others.
Honor is alive and well. And if we need a role model for it, we can always look to Robert E. Lee.
Enjoy!
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