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...
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Shackleton's Way
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...
Margot Morrell
- Oct 26, 2023
"All hope is not given up yet..."
Frank Hurley's Journal, October 26, 1915 "Extremely heavy pressure set in again opening planking 4 & 5 inches on the starboard side. ...
Margot Morrell
- Oct 25, 2023
On Shackleton's Leadership...
“He was a tower of strength and endurance, and he never panicked in any emergency. And he was the most generous man I ever came across.”...
Margot Morrell
- Oct 25, 2023
Shackleton: "We were ready..."
Shackleton, South, October 25, 1915 "I scarcely dared hope now that the Endurance would live, and throughout that anxious day I reviewed...
Margot Morrell
- Oct 25, 2023
"I am afraid it is all up with the ship"
McNeish's Journal, October 24, 1915 "I dont know what Lat we are in at present but things looks a bit serious now I have built a coffer...
Margot Morrell
- Oct 24, 2023
On Shackleton's Leadership
Frank Worsley on Shackleton's Leadership: “Any and every duty is undertaken cheerfully and willingly and no complaint or whining is ever...
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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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