REACTION TO A REVIEW OF "AMERICAN LION" ANDREW JACKSON IN THE WHITE HOUSE

REACTION TO A REVIEW OF “AMERICAN LION” ANDREW JACKSON IN THE WHITE HOUSE

James R. Fisher, Jr., Ph.D.
© August 29, 2009

Reference: This is an exchange that I thought might interest you with no comment other than the exchange.

J. Grattan says:

This is a review of the book? Delete it, get rid of the OD junk, and submit a book review.

Your post, in reply to an earlier post on Aug 26, 2009 2:04 PM PDT

Dr. James R. Fisher Jr. says:

OD isn't junk. As a matter of fact, it rules your life but apparently you don't know it. Jackson demonstrated an ability to understand the impact of climate and culture and how these ultimately dictate behavior. He was a way ahead of his time. I'm sorry you are not.

Be always well,

James R. Fisher, Jr., Ph.D.

In reply to your post on Aug 26, 2009 5:27 PM PDT

J. Grattan says:

You're right, I'm deficient in OD and many other things. I wonder why all the eminent historians who have written on Jackson have not turned their books into a book on OD. They probably just don't know enough.

Your post, in reply to an earlier post on Aug 28, 2009 7:08 PM PDT

Dr. James R. Fisher Jr. says:

Historians write histories. Organization-industrial psychologists, as a rule, stay in their genre. I didn't. So, your comments were no surprise. Jackson fascinates me, and this book in particular because he framed his administration to my cultural formula:

(1) the structure of leadership; (2) determines the function of leadership; (3) the function of leadership creates the leadership culture; (4) the leadership culture dictates the dominate behavior of the Republic; (5) the dominant national behavior determines whether the nation will vegetate, flounder, or prosper and prevail.

"The Jackson Age" passed a critical test in our nation's history so that it would be ready to endure a bloody Civil War nearly three decades later.

Jackson's genius was that he had a leadership center, something that I find missing today. It gave him a moral compass -- he saw himself as a moralist and the father of his country -- to apply my formula a century and a half before I wrote it.

This is all in my book SIX SILENT KILLERS: MANAGEMENT'S GREATEST CHALLENGE (1998), and also of possible interest: "Leadership Manifesto: Typology of Leaderless Leadership," which appeared in the AQP Journal (Winter 2002). See www.aqp.org or www.peripateticphilosopher.com

Be always well,

James R. Fisher, Jr., Ph.D.