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Shackleton's Way


America's Star-Spangled Banner
America's Star-Spangled Banner from Fort McHenry, Baltimore, September 14, 1814 American History On this day in 1814, patriot and...

Margot Morrell
Sep 14
Leading through a crisis
Yesterday's horrific event and the anniversary of September 11th bring to mind a story and executive told me twenty years ago. He was...

Margot Morrell
Sep 11
Eeeks!
So much for blogging. My excuse is that I got sidetracked by a frustrating project. Back soon.

Margot Morrell
Sep 7


"a characteristic speech"
Dump Camp, October 27, 1915 This is one of Shackleton's outstanding leadership moments as described by Worsley in his 1931 book,...

Margot Morrell
Jul 18


"a sickening sensation"
Here's Shackleton's version in South ... "The attack of the ice reached its climax at 4 p.m. ... The decks were breaking upwards and the...

Margot Morrell
Jun 24


"Indescribable"
Endurance , October 1915, colorized. In the early pages of his 1931 book, Endurance , Frank Worsley gives a vivid account of how the...

Margot Morrell
Jun 24


Thinking ahead...
Worsley's Endurance ... " Within the ship, to counteract the depression caused by darkness, we had a particularly brilliant scheme of...

Margot Morrell
Jun 11
"Shackleton had a genius..."
From Worsley's Endurance ... "Shackleton had a genius - it was neither more or less than that - for keeping those about him in high...

Margot Morrell
Jun 10
Keeping up morale
Worsley, Endurance ... "... I remember looking at each one of the company present, and trying to image how he would feel had he heard...

Margot Morrell
Jun 9
"with characteristic foresight"
Shackleton's outstanding trait that leaps off the page of his Endurance journal, was, as Worsley puts it, his "characteristic...

Margot Morrell
Jun 7
"I admired his self-control"
Worsley writing in his 1931 book, Endurance , about his July 13, 1915 conversation with Shackleton and Wild about the ship inevitably...

Margot Morrell
Jun 6
Endurance was going to sink
Frank Wild, who Shackleton regarded as a "second self," said, "'Yes, but we are not going to let the ice get us. The poor little Endurance...

Margot Morrell
Jun 5
More from Sir Edmund Hillary
From Sir Edmund's Introduction to Shackleton's Boat Journey ... "Most of us have a hero or two that we openly or secretly admire, even if...

Margot Morrell
Jun 4
Shackleton's Boat Journey
Edmund Hillary's Introduction to Shackleton's Boat Journey by F. A. Worsley, June 28, 1976... "I would venture to guess that if a survey...

Margot Morrell
Jun 3


From prison, Paul wrote to friends in Philippi...
My great, great grandfather's Bible purchased in New York City in 1853. My interest in the Apostle Paul was triggered by a question...

Margot Morrell
Jun 1


How did the American Revolution get started?
Houses of Parliament before 1834 In the fall of 1774, the colonists sent a petition to George III explaining the contentious issues from...

Margot Morrell
Jun 1


Shackleton on the Endurance Expedition
#Leadership

Margot Morrell
May 28
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Leading By Example
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Communicating Effectively
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Keeping Up Morale
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Maintaining a Positive Attitude
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