Margot MorrellApr 1, 20201 min"He never admitted defeat."There was an Irish strain in him and he was full of imagination. He could see the whole thing accomplished, and he never admitted defeat....
Margot MorrellApr 1, 20201 min"His outstanding frankness..."Perhaps the most remarkable thing that may at once be said of him is that, unlike most people, there is no underside to his character. On...
Margot MorrellApr 1, 20201 min"We were in a mess..."There was nothing in the nature of a set speech. He spoke to us in a group, telling us that he intended to march the party across the lan...
Margot MorrellApr 1, 20201 min"The help and company of our leader might always be relied upon."“In the long winter months, when the scientists toiled in darkness and cold at their routine tasks outside, the help and company of our l...
Margot MorrellApr 1, 20201 min"His Great Strength"“No one could know Shackleton and work under him without feeling that his great strength lay in the honesty of his selflessness. Men trus...
Margot MorrellApr 1, 20201 minLeading through a Crisis“I always found him rising to his best and inspiring confidence when things were at their blackest.” Frank Hurley, photographer, Endurance
Margot MorrellMar 29, 20201 minWonderful photos of Antarctica...And a nice retelling of Shackleton's Story. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/2020/03/returning-from-south-atlantic-expedition-to...
Margot MorrellMar 28, 20202 minWorking for ShackletonShackleton was no pushover as Dr. Macklin recounts in his 1956 interview with biographer James Fisher. In this section of the interview, ...
Margot MorrellMar 27, 20203 minInterviewing with Shackleton | Introduction (2)Shackleton was knighted and feted all over the world for the extraordinary accomplishments of his 1907 - 1909 Nimrod expeditions. He had ...
Margot MorrellMar 26, 20201 minRe-reading Shackleton's Way | Introduction (1)“… and until recently, he had been little remembered since his death.” For Shackleton, the Endurance expedition was a disaster. Yet, it's...
Margot MorrellMar 26, 20201 minThinking Beyond OurselvesAs we struggle through this current crisis, it's easy to default into thinking about the inconveniences and annoyances we're dealing with...
Margot MorrellMar 25, 20201 minGetting the Group through a Crisis“Not only the main problem but its details absorbed him. Food, how to get it, how to eke out our slender stock of preserved food to give ...
Margot MorrellMar 24, 20201 minShackleton on Life"Life to me means the greatest of all great games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a ga...
Margot MorrellMar 23, 20202 minRe-reading Shackleton's Way | PrefacePerhaps you saw me mention on LinkedIn that while sorting out my Shackleton files recently, I realized I haven't read Shackleton's Way si...
Margot MorrellMar 20, 20205 minShackleton's Way | The Back StorySince the publication of Shackleton's Way in 2001, the question I find myself asked most often is, how did you get so interested in this?...
Margot MorrellMar 19, 20201 minLeading through a DisasterPicture 28 haggard, exhausted men standing on an ice-floe. They are hundreds of miles from civilization. There is no hope of rescue. They...
Margot MorrellMar 18, 20201 minMaintaining a Positive Attitude in a CrisisAs the crew abandoned Endurance, the worst pessimist on the expedition recorded in his diary, "... we are wrecked ... but not beaten."
Margot MorrellMar 17, 20202 minPart II - Abandoning Ship Leading By Example; Communicating Effectively.
We passed our first iceberg... Orde-Lees Journal, December 5, 1914 We have been ready to leave South Georgia for the last week but Sir Ernest has been waiting for the a...
"These qualities alone endear him..." Orde-Lees' commenting on Shackleton as a leader, July 7, 1915 Perhaps the most remarkable thing that may at once be said of him is that, ...
Leading through Challenges In the Introduction of Shackleton's Way (bottom of pg. 3 paperback), we mention the week the crew spent in the lifeboats - a horrific ord...
