Real Leaders: Rachel Carson Seeds the Environmental Movement

In 1958, writer Rachel Carson began her exhaustive research on the
effects of widespread pesticide use for her next book, Silent
Spring. Over the next four years, she built up an airtight case
showing how the world’s most powerful chemical companies were
harming animals, plants, and people. Her effort was also a race
against time, as she struggled against an aggressive form of breast
cancer. In the second episode of a four-part special series on
leadership, HBR Editor in Chief Adi Ignatius and Harvard Business
School professor and historian Nancy Koehn trace the modern
environmental movement back to Carson’s pioneering reporting and
powerful prose. They discover lessons in how to strengthen your
resilience, gather your energy and skills for a coming challenge,
and why caretaking is an act of leadership.