A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER “Five gritty leaders whose remarkable passion and perseverance altered history … a gripping keep reading a classic and timely topic”– Angela Duckworth, # 1 bestselling author of Grit A fascinating historical narrative filled with important management insights, Forged in Crisis, by well known 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 diverse figures share? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the responses to those questions, Nancy Koehn uses an amazing design template by which to evaluate those in our own time to whom the general public has offered its trust. She starts each of the book’s 5 sections by revealing her lead character on the precipice of a terrific crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the brink of seeing the Union collapse; got away slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter outright evil with faith; Carson racing against the cancer damaging her in a quote to save the world. The narrative then reaches back to each person’s childhood and reveals the specific growing– action by step– into the person he or she will ultimately become. Considerably, as we follow each leader’s against-all-odds journey, we start to glean a necessary reality: leaders are not born but made. In a book thick with epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power to lead courageously resides in each people. Whether it reads as a repository of fantastic insight or as incredibly rendered human drama, Created in Crisis stands as an imposing achievement.
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