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Koehn, Nancy F. (Nancy Fowler), 1959-
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Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Influence.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Influence.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Influence.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945 -- Influence.
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 -- Influence.
Leadership -- History.
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Koehn, Nancy F. (Nancy Fowler), 1959-
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Influence.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Influence.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Influence.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945 -- Influence.
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 -- Influence.
Leadership -- History.
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Forged in crisis : the power of courageous leadership in turbulent times /
Nancy
Koehn
.
by
Koehn
,
Nancy
F
. (
Nancy
Fowler
),
1959-
Scribner, 2017.
Call #:
303.34 K77f
Subjects
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Influence.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Influence.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Influence.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945 -- Influence.
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 -- Influence.
Leadership -- History.
ISBN:
9781501174445 (hc.)
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description:
ix, 517 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-496) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The call of history -- Bring the team home alive: Ernest Shackleton's challenge -- Save and transform the nation: Abraham Lincoln's challenge -- End slavery forever: Frederick Douglass's challenge -- Resist Nazi evil: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's challenge -- Protect the Earth and its creatures: Rachel Carson's challenge -- Conclusion: The power of courageous leadership.
Summary:
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?
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 by showing each 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. As we follow each leader's against-all-odds journey, we begin to glean an essential truth: leaders are not born but made. In a book dense with epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power to lead courageously resides in each of us.
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