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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Koehn, Nancy F. (Nancy Fowler), 1959-     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Koehn, Nancy F. (Nancy Fowler), 1959-       by title:      Forged in crisis : t...       by call number:      303.34 K77f     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 303.34 K77f Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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