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President's Message
Hello everyone!
You are invited this Wednesday, February 11th, to attend the 200th anniversary celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birth at the State Capitol Building in Harrisburg. Co-hosted by the Office of Speaker of the House Keith McCall and the PA Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, events will include the Pennsylvania Past Players, Civil War era music and Civil War art exhibits.
The national Lincoln Birthday Card Project and the accompanying signature panels will be on display in the Rotunda. You are welcome to come add your birthday greetings and have a slice of Abe’s birthday cake!
Events: 10 a.m. Opening Ceremony and Press event will be held in the Rotunda. Gordon A. Haaland, PA ALBC Chair and Speaker of the Pennsylvania House Keith McCall will offer welcoming remarks.
10 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the Rotunda, The Pennsylvania Past Players will bring the American Civil War to life with a performance, while the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Fife and Drum Corps perform a program of Civil War era music.
11:15 a.m. Our own Jim Getty, a nationally recognized Lincoln portrayer, will deliver the Gettysburg address on the House Floor. (For a preview, view our YouTube video, and read about what Steven B. Wiley would have asked Lincoln himself, had he had the opportunity.)
For more information about the public event, contact Carla E. Pavlick, Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, 717-337- 6608.
Stay tuned for our grand opening in May. We’re looking forward to showing off our new digs to all of our friends and clients.
Warmly, Steven B. Wiley
As always, send your comments and ideas to our managing director, Angela Sontheimer, at angela@lincolnleadershipinstitute.com. |
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An Insider’s View of the Gettysburg Address: What was Abraham Lincoln thinking the night before he gave his historic speech?
Lincoln Scholar Jim Getty as the 16th President of the United States
 Jim Getty as Abraham Lincoln:Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, shall long endure.
Steven B. Wiley: Mr. President, we're in the cemetery where you delivered that historic address. What emotions did that event evoke in you?
Lincoln: It amazes me to think that what would get into a man that he would be willing to die for something he would never see, the promise, the vision, that he would have had to keep this great country together so his loved ones in the future would have a more secure feeling of living.
Wiley: Tell me, what was your goal in delivering that address?
Lincoln: Well, they told me to keep it short, you know. When I got my invite, a few brief remarks, so I carefully put my words together, reminding my audience that it all started four score and seven years ago, when Jefferson gave us our birth certificate. And there was a tremendous payment on the future of that country made right here four and a half months earlier, and it was for them, the living, to go out and carry that message, that dream, in remembrance of what the sacrifice had been here, for them to go forth.
The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work, which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |
Steve Wiley to share stage with Dave Barry at National Conference, Feb. 18
At this year’s MBA's National Mortgage Servicing Conference & Expo on February 17-20 in Tampa, FL, Lincoln Leadership Institute president Steven B. Wiley will make a keynote presentation to hundreds in the real estate finance industry.
 Warming up the crowd will be Dave Barry, a syndicated humor columnist and best selling author and satirist who has appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad during the last 25 years. Barry is also the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988, and the author of 30 books — two of which were used as the basis for the CBS TV sitcom Dave’s World. Barry has also made many television appearances on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman.
“I really appreciate that Dave Barry has agreed to be the warm up act,” jokes Wiley, who will be conducting a Gettysburg-themed leadership seminar — something that conference organizers say is much needed in this economic downturn. “This summer's Housing and Economic Recovery Act has brought new challenges to the service providers in the National Mortgage Services business, and mortgage professionals are waiting to see what developments October's Emergency Economic Stabilization Act will bring.”
“I’m honored to have the opportunity to talk to this group, and do believe that I’ll be able to share insights and hopefully leave them with valuable leadership ideas by sharing some of the work and research we’ve done through our Transformational Journey from Gettysburg leadership development experience.”
For more information about the conference, visit: http://events.mortgagebankers.org/servicing2009/default.html |
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Steve Wiley featured in Continental Airlines magazine article, “Smarten Up”
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In the February 2009 issue of Continental Airlines in-flight magazine, reporter Robert McGarvey interviewed Lincoln Leadership Institute president Steven B. Wiley. The article, entitled, Smarten Up: New-style education initiatives prepare savvy executives to master the tough times ahead, Wiley comments on how his Transformational Journeys leadership program does just this.
McGarvey writes:
Picture the scenario: You are a senior-level executive, and you're taking a class in which the teacher instructs you to walk into a room where you're immediately surrounded by two dozen homeless people. What they want from you is insight into how to get a decent job that carries a decent paycheck. What would you say?
In Gettysburg, Pa., groups of perhaps two or three dozen senior executives from one company come together to face a different challenge: thinking through the leadership lessons to be learned from the Battle of Gettysburg, the turning point of the Civil War, and seeing how those lessons can be applied, today, to issues they face in their own businesses. “We walk the battlefield, we talk about the history, but we keep a sharp focus on what executives can use immediately,” says Steve Wiley, president of the Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg, which provides organizational and leadership training. “Sometimes it’s tough to persuade people they need to get off the treadmill for a couple of days of deep thinking. But when they do, they start seeing much more clearly.”
Read McGarvey’s entire article here: http://magazine.continental.com/200902-executive-health-special-section |
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Copyright 2009, The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg |
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