A "strange contrast"
As the days darken earlier in the northern hemisphere, we can relate to Shackleton's words in South and marvel at the extraordinary...
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Shackleton's Way
Margot Morrell
- 4 days ago
"Courage and willpower"
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Margot Morrell
- Nov 24
"A Viking with a mother's heart."
NOTE: An unidentified person who knew Shackleton early in his career characterized the Boss as a "Viking with a mother's heart." In this...
Margot Morrell
- Nov 24
"Like school days all over again..."
Orde-Lees' Journal, November 24, 1915 Day by day goes by much the same as one another. We work; we talk; we laugh; we eat. Ah, we eat;...
Margot Morrell
- Nov 23
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 22
"we do not give way to depression"
Orde-Lees' Journal - 22 November, 1915 Temperature minimum +18. Colder & a welcome change from the prolonged thaw. A moderate southerly...
Margot Morrell
- Nov 21
"So, now we'll go home."
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
- Nov 20
"Yet here I am, quite happy..."
Macklin's Journal - November 20, 1915 ... Tonight Hussey has been playing his banjo, and I sat in his tent a while enjoying the music. I...
Margot Morrell
- Nov 16
"In case of emergency"
Macklin's Journal - November 15, 1916 Today Sir E. read out a list of the duties of every individual in the party in case of an...
Margot Morrell
- Nov 16
"This old friendly floe"
Macklin's Journal - November 14, 1915 ... Our greatest trial is the warm temperature and a fine mushy sleet which we commonly get, and...
Margot Morrell
- Nov 13
"the ring of hearty laughter"
Hurley's Journal - November 13, 1915 At noon to-day the temperature rose to +33, with the result that the surface of the floe has become...
Margot Morrell
- Nov 9
Shackleton's Way of Leading through Challenges
Hurley and Shackleton outside their tent at Ocean Camp. NOTE: Hurley's journal entry on November 9, 1915 captures one of Shackleton's...
Margot Morrell
- Nov 8
The Burden of Leadership
Worsley's Journal - November 7, 1915 Everyone is happy and contented and hopeful, if not confident, of the future. Speaking for myself...
Margot Morrell
- Nov 6
Shackleton's Way of Keeping Up Morale
Physicist Reginald James on Shackleton's strategies for keeping up morale... He probably never made any deliberately planned steps to...
Margot Morrell
- Nov 5
Shackleton on leadership
From South "Although keeping in mind the necessity for strict economy with our scanty store of food, I knew how important it was to keep...
Margot Morrell
- Nov 3
Shackleton's Way of Leading through a Crisis
Frank Hurley describes how Shackleton led his team through the crisis: "When the ship broke up, Shackleton met the crisis with complete...
Margot Morrell
- Nov 2
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
"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
- Nov 1
"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
Shackleton's Way - Leading through tough times
18 years before Endurance was trapped in the Antarctic ice, the Belgian ship, Belgica, was in the same predicament. But the contrast -...
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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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