These 5 great historical leaders had this one trait in common | Nancy Koehn

Описание: History’s most remarkable leaders had this one trait in common. We can harness it too.

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Great leaders are few and far between, but Nancy Koehn, a historian of business at Harvard Business School, has put together a compendium of anecdotes from five great leaders throughout history.

It reads like a who's-who of humanitarianism, with true stories of grit and determination from the likes of explorer Ernest Shackleton, American president Abraham Lincoln, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the Nazi-resisting Lutheran minister Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the environmental activist Rachel Carson.

Here, Nancy Koehn explores how Ernest Shackleton overcame some incredible odds to hold his team together on a doomed Antarctic expedition, and how we can learn from his stories.

Read the full video transcript: https://bigthink.com/the-well/leaders...

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