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  • May 2020
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  • Harvard Business Review: The Big Idea

How History's Great Leaders Managed Anxiety: Historian Nancy Koehn on What Lincoln, Shackleton, and Others Knew About Handling Collective Anxiety—and Their Own—During a Crisis

By: Nancy F. Koehn
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Keywords

Leadership; Crisis Management

Citation

Koehn, Nancy F. "How History's Great Leaders Managed Anxiety: Historian Nancy Koehn on What Lincoln, Shackleton, and Others Knew About Handling Collective Anxiety—and Their Own—During a Crisis." Special Issue on Managing in an Anxious World. Harvard Business Review: The Big Idea (May 2020).
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About The Author

Nancy F. Koehn

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