Leadership lessons from the great antarctic explorer

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

And a nice retelling of Shackleton's Story. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/2020/03/returning-from-south-atlantic-expedition-to...

Shackleton was no pushover as Dr. Macklin recounts in his 1956 interview with biographer James Fisher. In this section of the interview,...

Shackleton was knighted and feted all over the world for the extraordinary accomplishments of his 1907 - 1909 Nimrod expeditions. He had...

“… and until recently, he had been little remembered since his death.” For Shackleton, the Endurance expedition was a disaster. Yet, it's...

As we struggle through this current crisis, it's easy to default into thinking about the inconveniences and annoyances we're dealing with...

“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...

"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...

Perhaps you saw me mention on LinkedIn that while sorting out my Shackleton files recently, I realized I haven't read Shackleton's Way...

Since 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?...

Picture 28 haggard, exhausted men standing on an ice-floe. They are hundreds of miles from civilization. There is no hope of rescue. They...

As the crew abandoned Endurance, the worst pessimist on the expedition recorded in his diary, "... we are wrecked ... but not beaten."

Leading By Example; Communicating Effectively.

"We were wrecked … but we were not beaten."

“Of course the thing I liked most about him was that his first thought was for the men under him. ..."

"For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave." Robert Browning

Shackleton wrote about the challenges that he, Worsley, and Crean faced as they crossed South Georgia.

"Optimism is true moral courage." Shackleton