Reddit reviews April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.)
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I just read a book that totally opened my eyes about Robert. E. Lee. One of the greatest unsung heroes of American history if you ask me. Read April 1865 by Jay Winik.
Right so there's the Iron Law of Institutions, can be a factor. But this necessarily implies bad character judgement as you are making bad decisions that are only to your short term personal advantage.
>Iron Law of Institutions. The Iron Law of Institutions is: the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution.
So if you're in charge of an HMO or a record company you are like IBM in the early 90s when it almost went out of business. Or Apple in the dark years before Jobs returned. You have a choice, rearrange the deck chairs and bail, or rebuild the ship. People with character judgement rebuild the ship.
Case in point: Robert E. Lee in April 1865.
There's a guy with excellent character judgement, v. Jefferson Davis- not so much.