Forged In Crisis: The Power Of Courageous Leadership In Turbulent Times

  • Author: Nancy Koehn
  • Narrator: Nancy Koehn
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 16:28:08
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Synopsis

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

“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 Grit

An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights, 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.


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 made. In a book dense with epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power to lead courageously resides in each of us.

Whether it’s read as a repository of great insight or as exceptionally rendered human drama, Forged in Crisis stands as a towering achievement.

Chapters

  • Forged in Crisis 01 open

    Duration: 30s
  • Forged in Crisis 02 intro

    Duration: 24min
  • Forged in Crisis 03 Ch1

    Duration: 12min
  • Forged in Crisis 04 Ch2

    Duration: 18min
  • Forged in Crisis 05 Ch3

    Duration: 21min
  • Forged in Crisis 06 Ch4

    Duration: 14min
  • Forged in Crisis 07 Ch5

    Duration: 15min
  • Forged in Crisis 08 Ch6

    Duration: 21min
  • Forged in Crisis 09 Ch7

    Duration: 12min
  • Forged in Crisis 10 Ch8

    Duration: 07min
  • Forged in Crisis 11 Ch9

    Duration: 06min
  • Forged in Crisis 12 Ch10

    Duration: 17min
  • Forged in Crisis 13 Ch11

    Duration: 10min
  • Forged in Crisis 14 Ch12

    Duration: 26min
  • Forged in Crisis 15 Ch13

    Duration: 32min
  • Forged in Crisis 16 Ch14

    Duration: 16min
  • Forged in Crisis 17 Ch15

    Duration: 29min
  • Forged in Crisis 18 Ch16

    Duration: 25min
  • Forged in Crisis 19 Ch17

    Duration: 28min
  • Forged in Crisis 20 Ch18

    Duration: 24min
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