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Leadership: In Turbulent Times

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Are leaders born or made, and how do ambition, hardship and the times shape them, as seen in Lincoln, the two Roosevelts and Lyndon Johnson?

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Author
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Why read it

  • You will be able to tell the difference between power, a title and real leadership
  • You will have a way to think about how hardship shapes a leader's growth
  • You will learn to ask whether a leader's purpose is larger than personal ambition

Who it is for

  • A new manager asking what leading takes beyond a title
  • Someone leading through a crisis at work who wants real examples
  • A reader weighing whether leaders are born or can be made

Contents

  1. FOREWORD
  2. I
  3. AMBITION AND THE RECOGNITION OF LEADERSHIP
  4. ONE
  5. ABRAHAM
  6. TWO
  7. THEODORE
  8. THREE
  9. FRANKLIN
  10. FOUR
  11. LYNDON
  12. II
  13. ADVERSITY AND GROWTH
  14. FIVE
  15. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
  16. SIX
  17. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
  18. SEVEN
  19. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
  20. EIGHT
  21. LYNDON JOHNSON
  22. III
  23. THE LEADER AND THE TIMES: HOW THEY LED
  24. NINE
  25. TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
  26. TEN
  27. CRISIS MANAGEMENT
  28. ELEVEN
  29. TURNAROUND LEADERSHIP
  30. TWELVE
  31. VISIONARY LEADERSHIP
  32. EPILOGUE
  33. OF DEATH AND REMEMBRANCE
  34. BUSINESS BOOKS ON LEADERSHIP SKILLS
  35. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES

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