120. Nancy Koehn (Historian) – Holdin' on for a Hero
What's a real leader anyway? Harvard historian Nancy Koehn mines history for some answers.
October 14, 2017
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120. Nancy Koehn (Historian) – Holdin' on for a Hero
Summary
What do Rachel Carson, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ernest Shackleton, and Abraham Lincoln have in common, aside from being historical figures you’ve probably heard of? That’s the question my guest today tries to answer in her new book Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times. At a time when trustworthy leadership seems in short supply, it examines what real leadership is and how it comes about.
Nancy Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School whose research focuses on how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact.
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