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• History Bookshelf:  Team of Rivals
  This 1:11 hour C-Span program features the historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, speaking at the Miami Book Fair on July 16, 2011.  She gives examples of Abraham Lincoln's leadership skills during his presidency, especially in leading a cabinet of former rivals who thought they were smarter than he.
   
• Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders
  This 14:58 minute TED talk looks at the small percentage of women at the top of organizations.  Sheryl Sandberg diagnoses the causes and proposes three strategies for women to use to reach the top.
   
• Encore Q &A:  Ron Chernow, "Washington: A Life."
  This two part C-Span video (approximately 2 hours) of an interview with author Ron Chernow about his biography of George Washington reveals new information about this leader's temperament and relationships with John Adams and Alexander Hamilton and others.  The book is based on research of 60 volumes of correspondence and documents now available to scholars.
   
• Stanley McChrystal on Leadership. 
  Retired General Stanley McChrystal, a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale, spoke as part of the Leaders Forum lecture series. He used his own experience of three decades in the U.S. Army to illustrate ways in which individuals can begin to close what he sees as a serious leadership gap in the country. He spoke of the need for leaders to be able to embrace the increasing complexity of the world and find ways to knit together disparate stakeholders into a coherent team able to embrace a "shared consciousness and purpose." "It's the Holy Grail in terms of what's needed to be effective," he said in this 35:36 video.