Scholars who have studied the development of leaders have situated resilience, the ability to sustain ambition in the face of frustration, at the hea… - Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Scholars who have studied the development of leaders have situated resilience, the ability to sustain ambition in the face of frustration, at the heart of potential leadership growth. More important than what happened to them was how they responded to these reversals, how they managed in various ways to put themselves back together, how these watershed experiences at first impeded, then deepened, and finally and decisively molded their leadership.