Municipal Leaders: Develop Faster, Lead Stronger, Build Better
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There’s a moment in the 1936 Berlin Olympics that still gives me chills.
Nine young men—sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers from the Pacific Northwest—sit in a wooden boat, about to race for gold in front of Adolf Hitler and a crowd expecting a German victory. They weren’t the biggest. They weren’t the most celebrated. And they won anyway, not by outworking everyone in the final stretch, but because something clicked in that boat that the other crews couldn’t manufacture.
That story is the foundation of The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown and it’s our second book inside this summer’s series, Stories That Shape Leaders.
