top of page
Shackleton's Way
Margot Morrell
Nov 21, 2024
An Outstanding Shackleton Moment
Orde-Lees' Journal - November 21, 1915 "This evening as we were mostly taking it easy & reading we heard Sir Ernest call out, "She's...
Margot Morrell
Oct 28, 2024
Hurley's account of abandoning ship...
Hurley's Journal - October 27, 1915 Chips expects to complete the coffer dam tonight, and great hopes are entertained for its success. ...
Margot Morrell
Oct 28, 2024
Leading By Example
“I always found him rising to his best and inspiring confidence when things were at their blackest.” – Frank Hurley, photographer ,...
Margot Morrell
Oct 27, 2024
Abandoning Ship
Abandoning Endurance, October 27, 1915


Margot Morrell
Oct 18, 2024
Beginning of the End for Endurance
Beginning of the end for Endurance
Margot Morrell
Nov 23, 2023
Shackleton's Way - Leading thru a Crisis
Worsley's Journal, November 23, 1915 The blasting of our Leader’s hopes and plans – at all events for this year – must be bitterly hard...
Margot Morrell
Nov 13, 2023
"We do not want unpleasantness..."
Dr. Macklin's Journal - November 10, 1915 Has turned very cold tonight. This afternoon Worsley and others had a clean out of the tent - a...


Margot Morrell
Nov 13, 2023
Lincoln on success
#Challenges #Success #Inspiration


Margot Morrell
Nov 3, 2023
What is Shackleton thinking?
Wild and Shackleton at the wreck The Boss writes in South... Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of...
Margot Morrell
Nov 2, 2023
Ocean Camp
+18 F was ideal weather from the Endurance crew's perspective. Cold enough that nothing was melting. This journal entry by Orde-Lees...


Margot Morrell
Nov 2, 2023
"Never give up hope."
When Shackleton finally got back to London in mid-1917, he was asked to speak at a boy's school. He couldn't make it but he wrote back...


Margot Morrell
Oct 29, 2023
"He looked to the future."
#Shackleton #Leadership #Optimism #MaintainingAPositiveAttitude #Challenges #Endurance
Margot Morrell
Oct 28, 2023
"rady for the march"
Harry McNeish Journal, October 28, 1915 "we have everything about rady for the march which is 270 miles to the nearest known land over...
Margot Morrell
Oct 28, 2023
"Everyone was hard at work..."
Orde-Lees Journal, 28 October 1915 We had been asleep only one & a half hours when at 2:30 a.m. the floe split in half right through the...
Margot Morrell
Oct 28, 2023
Shackleton's Way of Leading through Disaster
Forty years after Endurance sank, physicist Reginald James wrote to Shackleton's biographer... “There was nothing in the nature of a set...
Margot Morrell
Oct 27, 2023
Shackleton: "at 5 p.m. I ordered all hands on to the ice"
South... "Again the pressure began, and at 5 p.m. I ordered all hands on to the ice. The twisting, grinding floes were working their will...
Margot Morrell
Oct 27, 2023
Endurance sends "a final signal of farewell"
Frank Hurley's Journal - October 27, 1915 "Chips expects to complete the coffer dam tonight, and great hopes are entertained for its...
Margot Morrell
Oct 27, 2023
Shackleton: "A fateful day..."
South. Shackleton's account of the Endurance Expedition... “After long months of ceaseless anxiety and strain, after times when hope beat...


Margot Morrell
Oct 27, 2023
Shackleton's leadership in disaster
Shackleton's Endurance Expedition - The crew at Dump Camp after Endurance is crushed by the ice.


Margot Morrell
Oct 26, 2023
"we all owe our lives to his leadership"
“I do not think there is any doubt that we all owe our lives to his leadership and his power of making a loyal and coherent party out of...
-
Leading By Example
-
Communicating Effectively
-
Keeping Up Morale
-
Maintaining a Positive Attitude
bottom of page