{"product_id":"forged-in-crisis-the-making-of-five-courageous-leaders","title":"Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWALL STREET JOURNAL\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Five gritty leaders whose extraordinary passion and perseverance changed history...a gripping read on a timeless and timely topic\" --Angela Duckworth, #1 bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGrit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights, \u003ci\u003eForged in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe 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 made. In a book dense with epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power to lead courageously resides in each of us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether it's read as a repository of great insight or as exceptionally rendered human drama, \u003ci\u003eForged in Crisis \u003c\/i\u003estands as a towering achievement.\r","brand":"Nancy Koehn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44448599769324,"sku":"9781501174452","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781501174452.jpg?v=1724052552","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/forged-in-crisis-the-making-of-five-courageous-leaders","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}