“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...

“I always found him rising to his best and inspiring confidence when things were at their blackest.” – Frank Hurley, photographer ,...

Orde-Lees recounts Shackleton's outstanding leadership in the moment of crisis as the Endurance crew is forced to abandon ship. As...

Orde-Lees' Journal - October 24, 1915 In this journal entry, we see Shackleton, in a crisis, ahead of his team. #LeadingByExample "We had...

Getting the best from your team.

“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.”...

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

This account, written in the 1950, discusses Endurance's stay in Buenos Aires in 1914. The passage highlights a particularly powerful...

…I think that though failure in the actual accomplishment must be recorded, there are chapters in this book of high adventure, strenuous...

Frank Wild, second-in-command on Endurance and Quest ... "I have served with Scott, Shackleton and Mawson, and have met Nansen,...

Ed. Note: Reading over Orde-Lees' diary entries from October 1915, brought to mind the passage below from Shackleton's Way . It...

Entries from Frank Hurley's journal provide a glimpse of life aboard Endurance , nine months after the ship was frozen in by the ice....

"Thus he gets the very best results out of all his staff."

These hurricanes in America's southeastern states, makes one think, What would Shackleton do? Ahead of impending disaster, Shackleton...

"When the ship broke up, Shackleton met the crisis with complete composure ... [that] gives you some idea of [his] greatness.

Shackleton aboard Quest Scrolling through photographer Frank Hurley's journal, this entry caught my eye... March 21, 1916 (For new hat...

As the days darken earlier in the northern hemisphere, we can relate to Shackleton's words in South and marvel at the extraordinary...

#Shackleton #Leadership

NOTE: An unidentified person who knew Shackleton early in his career characterized the Boss as a "Viking with a mother's heart." In this...

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;...