evidence: We will either succeed or fail together as a nation. According to management expert Peter Drucker, "The best way to predict the future is to create it." [...] The implausible linkage of the saying to Abraham Lincoln has occurred relatively recently. For example, in 2008 the Commissioner of Social Security credited Lincoln with an instance using the word "create":16 "Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘The best way to predict your future is to create it,'" Commissioner Astrue said. [...] Peter admonished us in class: "You cannot predict the future, but you can create it." More popularly, this is stated as "The best way to predict the future is to create it." Either way, his method of creation was through strategic planning by the leader.