4/27/2015
Lessons of Leadership: Examining the Life and Administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bob Avery Director of Business Services Beaver Dam Unified School District
The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR
• This presentation is adapted from one given by Matthew Pinsker, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Dickinson College at the 2014 ASBO Eagle Institute.
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The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR
What can we look at in FDR’s life and administration to learn lessons on leadership? • Campobello • Court‐Packing • Brain Trust • Lend‐Lease • Fireside Chats • Pearl Harbor • Hundred Days • D‐Day • Second New Deal • Yalta
The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR
Early Years • 1882: Born, Hyde Park – Only Child • 1903: BA from Harvard – Father died while attending • 1905: Married Eleanor • 1910: Elected to NY State Senate • 1912: Appointed Ass’t Secretary of the Navy • 1920: VP Candidate • 1928: Elected Governor of New York • 1932: Elected 32nd President of the US
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The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR I. CAMPOBELLO • Contracted polio in summer of 1921, at age 39, while vacationing.
The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR II. BRAIN TRUST
Louis Howe Henry Morgenthau Basil O’Connor James Farley
Eleanor Roosevelt
Samuel Rosenman Hugh Johnson Raymond Moley Rexford Tugwell
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The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR III. FIRESIDE CHATS • 30 Chats between 1933 and 1944
The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR IV. HUNDRED DAYS
“Of course we may have to change remedies if we don’t get results.”
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The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR V. SECOND NEW DEAL • Works Progress Administration • Federal Power Commission (now FERC) • Rural Electrification Act • Farm Security Administration (now FHA) • National Labor Relations Board • Social Security
The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR VI. COURT PACKING • SCOTUS overturning New Deal legislation as un‐Constitutional
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The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR VII. LEND‐LEASE • Neutrality Act • The Garden Hose metaphor
The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR VIII. PEARL HARBOR
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The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR IX. D‐DAY • June 6, 1944 • Opening the Second Front in Western Europe
The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR X. YALTA • Second of three meetings of the Big Three • February 1945 • Crimean Peninsula
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The Ten Lessons We Can Learn from FDR
• What was your Campobello? • Who is your Brain Trust? • How good are your Fireside Chats? • When do you launch your 100 Days? • Do you need a Second New Deal? • Are you in danger of Court‐Packing misjudgment? • Can you find a Lend‐Lease solution? • How have you reacted to your Pearl Harbor? • When is your D‐Day? • Are you in danger of creating your own Yalta?
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