9 Lessons From The 'Iron Lady'

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“You may have to
fight a battle more
than once to win it.”
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister MargaretThatcher,
the ‘Iron Lady,’ was a BrinkThinker
and stood heels above the crowd!
9 LESSONS FROMTHE
‘IRON LADY’
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“She said what she meant and meant what she
said and did what she said she would do,” said
Tony Benn, a radical left-wing minister in the
Labour governments that preceded Mrs.Thatcher.
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Mean what
you say and
say what
you mean
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At her ﬁrst meeting with Soviet leader Gorbachev, she set the
tone early in the relationship:“Welcome to the United
Kingdom. I want our relationship to get off to a good start,
and to make sure there is no misunderstanding between us…
I hate Communism.”
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Set the tone
and express
your intentions
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Set your sail and
stay the course –
Values and Principles
don’t bend
Thatcher described consensus as the
process of “abandoning all beliefs,
principles, values and policies…
something in which no one believes
and to which no one objects.”
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Leadership
sets the tone
and the vision
“I don’t mind how much my ministers
talk, as long as they do what I say.”
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Followers are many,
Leaders are few –
Lead, follow or get
out of the way
Her father, a
Methodist preacher,
was active in local
politics and a major
early inﬂuence. ”He
taught her, don’t go
with the herd if you
think that the herd is
wrong,” said Sir
Bernard Ingham,
Thatcher’s Press
Secretary.
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Margaret
Thatcher grew
up in a meager
lifestyle, the
daughter of a
Methodist
preacher who
was himself
very active in
local politics.
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Your
starting
point does
not have to
be your
ending
point
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Thatcher said those who
stood in the middle of the
road risked getting hit by
trafﬁc coming both ways.
“I’m not here to be liked,”
she often said.
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Life is not a
popularity
contest, though
decisions are
not always
popular
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Stand for something.
Have conviction and
be yourself at all
times
“The trouble with you, John, is that
your spine does not reach your brain.”
Thatcher, as former prime minister
speaking to a member of her party
who supported Britain’s entry into the
European Union in1992.
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“When you’ve spent half your political life
dealing with humdrum issues like the
environment, it’s exciting to have a real crisis
on your hands.” 1982, commenting on the
Falkland Islands war.
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Embrace the
challenges in
your life
When areYOU going to make the LEAP to a BrinkThinking lifestyle?
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Mrs.Thatcher told the Liverpool Daily
Post in 1974 that she did not think a
woman would serve as party leader or
prime minister during her lifetime.
Much to the chagrin of the
establishment, Maggie proved herself
wrong. Shortly after making that
statement she was elected leader of the
Conservative Party on February 11th,
1975.Thatcher continued to make
history and won the national election
as the ﬁrst female Prime Minister in
Britain’s history on May 3rd, 1979. She
successfully led the Conservatives to
three election victories, from 1979 to
1990, the longest continuous period in
ofﬁce by a British prime minister since
the early 19th century.
She was the most powerful woman in the world.
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