A Leadership Historian on the U.S. Presidential Election

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Harvard Business Review

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🗓️ 10 November 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn talks about the surprising election of businessman Donald Trump as U.S. president, and what leaders throughout history can tell us about bridging divides and leading in times of uncertainty.

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0:09.0	Understand the human motivations behind groundbreaking business decisions with host Amy Keene.
0:14.6	Listen to The Closer, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR IDEA cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickish. Leadership matters and in the United States
0:37.8	voters have chosen their leader. Republican Donald Trump will be the country's
0:41.9	chief executive and its military's commander-in-chief.
0:45.6	He defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton an election result that defied expectations
0:51.3	after a contentious race that in some ways
0:53.4	defied history. Joining us now to talk about this is Nancy Kane
0:57.6	she's a historian at Harvard Business School. She's also the author of the
1:01.5	forthcoming book, Forged in Crisis, the Making of Five Legendary Leaders,
1:06.0	Leaders, including Abraham Lincoln,
1:08.3	Rachel Carson, and Ernest Jackleton.
1:11.0	And she's here to talk about what history and leaders throughout history
1:15.1	can tell us about this US presidential election and the challenges ahead.
1:19.8	Nancy, thanks for being on the show.
1:21.8	It's a real pleasure, Kurt.
1:23.8	Trump won the US presidential election
1:26.4	in a surprise result.
1:28.1	As a student of American political history,
1:30.5	did it surprise you?
1:32.2	Very much so. Very much so.
1:34.0	It surprised me because the polls were so different
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