Leadership

Lessons from the Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson for Turbulent Times

De: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrado por: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Thomas, Jay O. Sanders, David Morse

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Leadership written and read by Doris Kearns Goodwin, with additional narration from Beau Bridges, David Morse, Jay O. Sanders and Richard Thomas.

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader?

In Leadership Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied - Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson - to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entry into public life, when their paths were filled with confusion, hope, and fear, we can share their struggles and follow their development into leaders.

Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to forever shatter their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times.

No common pattern describes the trajectory of leadership. Although set apart in background, abilities and temperament, they shared a fierce ambition, a hunger to succeed beyond expectations. All four, at their best, were guided by a sense of moral purpose that led them at moments of great challenge to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others.

This seminal work provides a roadmap for aspiring and established leaders. In today's polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in times of fracture and fear take on a singular urgency.


'Well-researched and well-written ... Superb' Professor Andrew Roberts, author, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

'A marvelous banquet with four great presidents who provide lessons for all. Pull up a chair' Warren Buffett

Reseñas de la Crítica

A masterwork on how good leaders become great leaders. A culminating work of a true intellectual artist (Jim Collins, author Good to Great, co-author Built to Last)

A marvelous banquet with four leaders whose lives provide lessons for all. Pull up a chair (Warren Buffett)

Team of Rivals was a huge bestseller . . . this book may do even better. It is a safe bet that Leadership will soon sit on the nightstand of every chief executive officer in the land and will be avidly read by the legion of ambitious young people who want their jobs (Niall Ferguson)

Colourful, fun and illuminating...a master storyteller (Daniel Finkelstein)

I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years (Robert Harris, on 'Team of Rivals')

What Doris Kearns Goodwin brings to this book -- above all her other attributes -- is a true sense of wisdom. A lifetime of writing important and thought-provoking books means that she has thought deeply on the crucial subject of leadership, and about the way that lessons learned in the political and military spheres might translate into the business and social ones. The profundity of her thought on these issues is evident on every well-researched and well-written page. Superb. (Professor Andrew Roberts, author, Churchill: Walking with Destiny)

This is a wonderful book, which illuminates and entertains. In analysing the leadership qualities of four very different presidents, Doris Kearns Goodwin underlines how these attributes are almost wholly missing from the political equipment of the present incumbent of the Oval Office. (Sir Christopher Meyer, former British Ambassador to the United States)

Business students invariably ask me: 'With what historical figure would you like to have lunch?' Doris Kearns Goodwin has prepared a marvelous banquet with four great presidents who provide lessons for all. Pull up a chair (Warren Buffett)

Doris Goodwin is the grand master of presidential biography. Now, in this marvelous synthesis, Goodwin deploys her deep knowledge of four towering individuals-Lincoln, TR, FDR, and LBJ-to create a masterwork on how good leaders become great leaders. She shows how burning personal ambition can be elevated into driving ambition for a cause greater than self, how egotism can be transformed into humility born of crushing setbacks, and how fierce individual resolve can be transferred into collective will to do what must be done. Riveting, uplifting, and incisive, Leadership is a culminating work of a true intellectual artist (Jim Collins, author Good to Great, co-author Built to Last)

It is to Goodwin's credit that she teases out the variety and peculiarities among the four presidents . . . she renders her characters with a depth and intricacy that not all academic historians seek to attain. We can only hope that a few of Goodwin's many readers will find in her subjects' examples a margin of inspiration (David Greenberg)

Thorough research on four US presidents

Well structured and easy to listen. Well narrated. Great selection of historical passages. Want to read Team of Rivals from the same author.

An excellent study

This is a wonderfully detailed examination of some great leaders in US history. Kearns’ study of the presidents is underpinned by her experience in the Johnson White House. This background gives her the ability to understand and explain the dilemmas and challenges faced by the four presidents in their early careers, before their election victories, and in office. I enjoyed this so much that I am going to buy a physical copy to keep as a reference.

Remarkable story of people who shaped the History'

What a story! LBJs story is very touching and shows how human he is. However most sparkling character is Theodore Roosevelt. What an energetic soul!

Doris is one of the best living story teller, love how your masterly unfold these four men! American history is very fortunate to have you!