{Bookshelf Recommendation } Are Leaders Born or Made? Dr. Charles E. Ziegler By Dr. Charles E. Ziegler Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times (Simon and Schuster, 2018). Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of Team of Rivals and other major biographies, examines the trajectories of four notable presidents—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson—to understand what makes a real leader. Among other questions, Kearns asks whether leaders are born or made, how times and adversity shape leadership skills, and how personal ambition affects leadership. Her subjects differ dramatically in their backgrounds and in the challenges each faced, yet all four demonstrated the qualities of effective, and inspirational, leadership. While Kearns finds no single formula that makes a great leader, she does distill a number of cogent lessons from their lives. Among them: “assume full responsibility f...
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