Forged In Crisis: The Power Of Courageous Leadership In Turbulent Times
by Nancy Koehn /
2017 / English / PDF
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An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership
insights that will be of interest to a wide range of
readers—including those in government, business, education, and the
arts—
An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership
insights that will be of interest to a wide range of
readers—including those in government, business, education, and the
arts—Forged in Crisis,
Forged in Crisis, by celebrated Harvard Business School
historian Nancy Koehn, spotlights five masters of crisis: polar
explorer Ernest Shackleton; President Abraham Lincoln; legendary
abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich
Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson.
by celebrated Harvard Business School
historian Nancy Koehn, spotlights five masters of crisis: polar
explorer Ernest Shackleton; President Abraham Lincoln; legendary
abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich
Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson.
What do such disparate figures have in common? Why do their
extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering
the answers to those questions, Nancy Koehn offers a remarkable
template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public
has given its trust.
What do such disparate figures have in common? Why do their
extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering
the answers to those questions, Nancy Koehn offers a remarkable
template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public
has given its trust.
She begins each of the book’s five sections by showing her
protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned
on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union
collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture;
Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter absolute evil with faith;
Carson racing against the cancer ravaging her in a bid to save the
planet. The narrative then reaches back to each person’s childhood
and shows the individual growing—step by step—into the person he or
she will ultimately become. Significantly, as we follow each
leader’s against-all-odds journey, we begin to glean an essential
truth: leaders are not born but
She begins each of the book’s five sections by showing her
protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned
on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union
collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture;
Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter absolute evil with faith;
Carson racing against the cancer ravaging her in a bid to save the
planet. The narrative then reaches back to each person’s childhood
and shows the individual growing—step by step—into the person he or
she will ultimately become. Significantly, as we follow each
leader’s against-all-odds journey, we begin to glean an essential
truth: leaders are not born butmade
made. In a book dense with
epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power to lead
courageously resides in each of us.
. In a book dense with
epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power to lead
courageously resides in each of us.
Both a repository of great insight and an exceptionally rendered
human drama,
Both a repository of great insight and an exceptionally rendered
human drama,Forged in Crisis
Forged in Crisis stands as a towering
achievement.
stands as a towering
achievement.
