Leadership in Turbulent Times
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Goodwin compares Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson: how each was formed, how each suffered a crisis that nearly ended him, and how each led through a turbulent moment. The structure makes the leadership lessons explicit without flattening the men. A good entry to her longer biographies.
Read it if…
you want leadership lessons drawn from history, clearly organized.
Skip it if…
you want contemporary business examples.
Three things you will actually use
- Adversity forms leaders; what you do with it matters.
- Different temperaments lead well in different ways.
- Timing and patience are strategic.
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Read the section on each leader's crisis and what it taught; write your own.
Our verdict
Clear, humane history.
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