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What historian David McCullough’s new book can teach Idaho business leaders

I seem to be quoting The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan a lot these days. A few weeks ago, she had an excellent column suggesting that leaders need to think more like artists than economists. This past week she reviewed a collection of speeches by the historian David McCullough, who has much to offer leaders of any type of organization.

McCullough’s book, "The American Spirit," argues that history is a "larger way of looking at life." His focus is on how politicians can use history, but I think it can help business leaders too.

Here are some of the keys from McCullough’s book that Noonan mentions:

BY NANCY NAPIER
Special to the Idaho Statesman

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