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Excellence in Leadership; Then and Now: Lessons from Two Leaders

Benjamin Franklin and Walter Isaacson

By Laura Biddle-Bruckman

Walter Isaacson, a celebrated leader in his own right, has written a biography of the founder of the first successful mutual insurance company in the United States. The book, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life has been praised by critics across the country. According to Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin was among the most versatile of the Founding Fathers. He was by turns a diplomat, scientist, inventor, revolutionary, businessman and university founder. "Yet," says Isaacson, "if you asked him what he was, he would say a printer, a newspaperman, a publisher."

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