Leadership lessons from the great antarctic explorer

In the depths of the polar winter, motor-expert and stores-keeper Thomas Orde-Lees came down with sciatica - often described as lower...

Recently someone asked me, "Who is a present day Shackleton?" I think there are "present day" Shackletons all around us, in all walks of...

Seated next to a CEO who had led a Fortune 100 company through a major, front-page disaster, I asked him how he had done it. He said...

May 31, 1915 Changeable weather again. Temperature was 8F at 10:30 a.m., but -8F at noon, a drop of 16 degrees in 1 1/2 hours. Rather an...

In the 1950s, Shackleton biographer, James Fisher (JF) interviewed Endurance captain Frank Worsley's widow Jean Worsley (JW) ... JW: I...

In Lady in Waiting. Lady Anne Glenconner tells of serving as Maid of Honor at Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 coronation at Westminster Abbey....

In early December 1908, Shackleton and three companions were attempting to reach the South Pole. Beset by storms, the team was behind on...

What do the New England Patriots, NASA rocket scientists, and the Wall Street Journal have in common? They've all used legendary explorer...

Shackleton once commented, "Leadership is a fine thing, but it has its penalties. And the greatest penalty of all is loneliness." At Cape...

Shackleton "built success on a foundation of camaraderie, loyalty, responsibility, determination and - above all - optimism."...

While working on a project recently, I was reminded of how often I put Shackleton lessons to use in my daily life. When Endurance sailed...

105 years ago today, Shackleton, Worsley and Crean were close to achieving the impossible. In biting cold, they crossed the ice-clad...

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...

OTD in 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 27 sailed from South Georgia and into history. They couldn't know their story of...

"A leader is a dealer in hope." Napoleon

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,...

Shackleton biographer, James Fisher, met with sailmaker Walter How on Sept. 1, 1955 to discuss How's memories of the Endurance...

In the Introduction of Shackleton's Way (bottom of pg. 3 paperback), we mention the week the crew spent in the lifeboats - a horrific...

"In spite of his own great disappointment and we all know that is disastrous enough, he never appears to be anything but the acme of good...