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Shackleton's Way
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 25, 2024
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 23, 2024


Getting the best from your team
Getting the best from your team.

Margot Morrell
Oct 19, 2024


Beginning of the End for Endurance
Beginning of the end for Endurance

Margot Morrell
Oct 18, 2024
"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.”...

Margot Morrell
Oct 17, 2024


"Sparks of Real Greatness"
"Shackleton at this time showed one of his sparks of real greatness..."

Margot Morrell
Oct 17, 2024
Shackleton's thinking on Endurance
…I think that though failure in the actual accomplishment must be recorded, there are chapters in this book of high adventure, strenuous...

Margot Morrell
Oct 16, 2024


"All the Best Points of Leadership"
Frank Wild, second-in-command on Endurance and Quest ... "I have served with Scott, Shackleton and Mawson, and have met Nansen,...

Margot Morrell
Oct 15, 2024


Profiles of the Endurance Crew
Profiles of the Endurance crew.

Margot Morrell
Oct 14, 2024


"A fine character"
Orde-Lees' Journal, October 10, 1915 "I was out sledging with Tom Crean today. ... Tom Crean is a fine character one of the most reliable...

Margot Morrell
Oct 10, 2024
"We are in comparative comfort..."
NOTE: Thanks to Shackleton's leadership, ten days after abandoning Endurance, the crew has made a remarkable adjustment to living on an...

Margot Morrell
Nov 8, 2023
"we had a good thick hoosh"
Orde-Lees' Journal - 5 November 1915 Very cold during the night. I was on watch from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. and caught an Adelie penguin. This...

Margot Morrell
Nov 5, 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 3, 2023
“Sarcophagi” on the ice
Worsley's Journal November 2 Tuesday 69° 7' 45" S 52° 5' W .7th night . It is now 8:20 p.m. and I have just finished all my days work...

Margot Morrell
Nov 3, 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


"A horrible sickening sensation"
Frank Wild Alexander Macklin, surgeon on Endurance, meticulously kept an expedition journal that went down with the ship. The day after...

Margot Morrell
Nov 1, 2023


"The ship was not abandoned one hour too soon..."
Dump Camp Worsley's Journal. October 27, 1915 "The ship was not abandoned one hour too soon, for shortly after we had camped on the floe,...

Margot Morrell
Oct 30, 2023


"He looked to the future."
#Shackleton #Leadership #Optimism #MaintainingAPositiveAttitude #Challenges #Endurance

Margot Morrell
Oct 29, 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
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 28, 2023
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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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