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Shackleton's Way
"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 20, 2023
"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, 2023
"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 16, 2023
"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 13, 2023
"Our peculiar circumstances..."
Orde-Lees' Journal - November, 8 1915 Temperature +12. The blizzard continued through the morning but cleared towards noon, & it was a...

Margot Morrell
Nov 10, 2023


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 9, 2023
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 8, 2023
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 6, 2023
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 5, 2023
"The scene was highly amusing..."
Despite the enormous challenges they are faced with, the extraordinary team are making the best of things. #Leadership #Shackleton...

Margot Morrell
Nov 4, 2023
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 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


"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 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


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 -...

Margot Morrell
Nov 1, 2023
Shackleton's Way of Communicating...
In July 1915, Orde-Lees spent a few weeks in Shackleton's cabin recovering from a painful bout of sciatica. He used the opportunity of...

Margot Morrell
Oct 31, 2023
On Shackleton's Leadership...
In 1955, Endurance physicist Reginald James wrote a letter full of fascinating insights on Shackleton's leadership to Margery Fisher... I...

Margot Morrell
Oct 30, 2023
"our leader proceeded to set an example..."
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 the...

Margot Morrell
Oct 30, 2023


"A leadership book that reads like an adventure story."
Dump Camp always makes me think of the wonderful Dava Sobel, author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter... "I recall the moment as...

Margot Morrell
Oct 30, 2023


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

Margot Morrell
Oct 29, 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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