Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders by Nancy Koehn

BATB score: 5.10/10 💢

5 for the 5 highlighted historical leaders and 0.10 for the 10 years Nancy Koehn took to write this book.

*Spoiler Alert* It's a history book.

Best to: know that it is actually 5 individual books within this one book. It's a history book written by a historian inclusive of all the details from birth to death of the subject's account trying to bundle leadership concepts wherever possible.

Best for: the book was written in 2017; do we really have to refer to ancient leaders back in the 1900s - 1950s? Don't we have any other recent and more relevant leaders in the 21st century?

Best as: I am positive that there are better leadership books out there. Let me look for one to one up this.

*Annoyed Thought* yes, being president during the USA's bloodiest civil war, leading anti-slavery reforms by an ex-slave, sailing to the south pole, secretly strategising the murder of Hitler, and writing a first book for the environment on how DDT kills; history 💯 leadership inspiration ❌

*Random Thought* Trump presidency, Elon Musk and SpaceX, SEA military junta, Greta Thunberg?