A Visit to Dump Camp
Editor's Note: Orde-Lees began his diary as an extended letter to his wife. This is one of those diary entries where that's particularly...
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Shackleton's Way
Margot Morrell
Nov 14
"A Walk to the Wreck"
Frank Hurley's Journal - November 14, 1915 During the afternoon, Wild and I went for a walk to the wreck. We found the intervening ice...
Margot Morrell
Nov 14
Life on the Ice
Orde-Lees' Journal - November 14, 1915 Temperature +25 to 33. "Bother the thaw; one lives in a state of perpetually wet feet but, strange...
Margot Morrell
Nov 9
Working for Shackleton
Image: Hurley and Shackleton at Ocean Camp Editor's Note: In this journal entry from Frank Hurley's journal, we catch a glimpse of what...
Margot Morrell
Nov 7
Shackleton on Leading in a Crisis
“To-night the temperature has dropped to –16 (degrees) Fahr., and most of the men are cold and uncomfortable. After the tents had been...
Margot Morrell
Nov 3
A High-Functioning Team
In the face disaster, nobody knew where they were, nobody was coming to find them, floating along on a disintegrating ice-berg,...
Margot Morrell
Oct 30
"Throwing away all he possessed."
Orde-Lees' Journal - October 30, 1915 "The order went forth that we should start the march at 3 p.m. and that we were to each carry only...
Margot Morrell
Oct 30
Communicating Effectively in a Crisis
Physicist Reginald James in a letter to a Shackleton biographer in the 1950s... "There was nothing of the nature of a set speech. He...
Margot Morrell
Oct 28
"...homeless & adrift on the sea ice."
Hurley rewrote many of the entries his journal at some point but, fortunately, the original was preserved. When I transcribed his...
Margot Morrell
Oct 28
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
"A bally ship"
The journal entries, the crew wrote after abandoning ship on October 27, 1915, are remarkable for the complete absence of panic - a...
Margot Morrell
Oct 28
Leadership in a Crisis
“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 28
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
Shackleton's "grand example"
Orde-Lees recounts Shackleton's outstanding leadership in the moment of crisis as the Endurance crew is forced to abandon ship. As...
Margot Morrell
Oct 27
Abandoning Ship
Abandoning Endurance, October 27, 1915
Margot Morrell
Oct 25
Leading By Example
Orde-Lees' Journal - October 24, 1915 In this journal entry, we see Shackleton, in a crisis, ahead of his team. #LeadingByExample "We had...
Margot Morrell
Oct 23
Aboard Endurance
Orde-Lees Journal, October 23, 1915 Waiting, waiting, waiting, that is about all one can say each day if one were merely to write down...
Margot Morrell
Oct 19
Getting the best from your team
Getting the best from your team.
Margot Morrell
Oct 18
Beginning of the End for Endurance
Beginning of the end for Endurance
Margot Morrell
Oct 17
"A Tower of Strength and Endurance"
“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.”...
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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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