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Hire diverse kinds of people with different ways of thinking

It was important for Lincoln to build a coalition of many different mindsets and different skillsets. He didn’t want people who thought the same as him, who would tell him he was right, who would demur to his word. He wanted people of of great skill with varied thought.

A cause is rarely advanced by a group of people who all defer to a single leader, or who all think identically. - If everybody thinks the same there will be blind spots. - If somebody doesn’t speak up when they think differently, they contribute to failure of the cause.

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