The Leadership Principles of Ulysses S. Grant - Stories & Myths (Episode 16)
Considered one of the three greatest American leaders by Teddy Roosevelt, U.S. Grant led the union to victory as a general and the nation to peace as president. Learn the timeless leadership principles that brought Grant success on this week's Stories & Myths with Craig von Buseck.
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Transcript:
meeting with Christian book
owners, bookstore owners, and
meeting with uh various
different kinds of folks uh to
talk about my different books
and hopefully to uh encourage
them uh stock their shelves
with those books and what books
are those that you'll be
promoting? The ones behind me.
Alright. Yes. So, so it should
should be an entertaining
interesting time. So, uh I'll
I'll probably do a couple of
research stops along the way.
Um I had stopped at Fort
Donelson a couple of years ago
after I had gone to the Ulysses
S Grant Presidential Library
and then I was heading up to
Pennsylvania to visit with my
parents and so I stopped at
Fort Donelson but I didn't have
enough time to get over to Fort
Henry uh which was the first
fort that grant uh defeated. it
actually wasn't grant. It was
his planning but it was the
navy that defeated Fort Henry
but then Grant and the Navy
working together defeated Fort
Donald and so I plan to stop at
Fort Henry because it's kind of
right on the way. Nice And then
uh also there may be a couple
other stops depending on how
much time I have. Uh Mark Twain
Birthplace is about an hour and
a half from where Yes. uh well,
not his birthplace but his
where he grew up. He was born
in Florida, Missouri which is a
little bit uh further west but
uh Hannibal is about an hour
and a half from where we're
going to be. So, if I find the
time I might zing up there as
well. So, It should be. It
should be an interesting time.
Awesome. Awesome that I plan to
hear or I look forward to
hearing some stories about it
next week and um at the office
and here on um on your podcast
stories and myths. That's
right. Yes. So, what do we got
on top for this evening? So,
we're actually going to be
talking about one of your grant
books. We're going to be
talking about the leadership
one. Um just got a couple of
questions about that and so um
this is the second It is called
the lord. The leadership
principles of Ulysses S Grant.
That's right, which is the
companion book to the biography
Victor, the final Battle of
Ulysses S Grant. So, and this
one came out in May of 2021,
right? And the biography Victor
came out in April. So, just a
month apart and so yeah. Um so,
I'll go ahead and jump right
into my first question. So,
Roosevelt declared in nineteen
mightiest among the mighty dead
loom. the three great figures
of Washington Lincoln, and
Grant. So, why did Grant's
reputation suffer such a
decline since that point? Well,
it's interesting II. Don't know
if there would be anyone today
who would say the same thing
now, everything shifts with
context and with time and uh
we've had an awful lot. You
know, we've had more than a
century since
Uh Teddy Roosevelt made that
quote and there have been a lot
of great American leaders since
that time but when you look
back from 1900 back to 1776 and