Book : Shackletons Way Leadership Lessons From The Great...

-Titulo Original : Shackletons Way Leadership Lessons From The Great Antarctic Explorer

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Penguin Books

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Lead your business to survival and success by following the example of legendary explorer Ernest ShackletonSir Ernest Shackleton has been called the greatest leader that ever came on Gods earth, bar none for saving the lives of the twenty-seven men stranded with him in the Antarctic for almost two years. Because of his courageous actions, he remains to this day a model for great leadership and masterful crisis management. Now, through anecdotes, the diaries of the men in his crew, and Shackletons own writing, Shackletons leadership style and time-honored principles are translated for the modern business world. Written by two veteran business observers and illustrated with ship photographer Frank Hurleys masterpieces and other rarely seen photos, this practical book helps todays leaders follow Shackletons triumphant example.An important addition to any leaders library. -Seattle Times Review A first-rate business primer. -- Publishers Weekly About the Author Margot Morrell, a twenty-year veteran of corporate America, has worked in financial services and consulting. Her research into Shackletons leadership has taken her to such far-flung destinations as Antarctica, Australia, and Argentina.Stephanie Capparrell, a journalist for more than twenty years, is an editor for the Wall Street Journals Marketplace page. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Path to LeadershipWhen Ernest Shackleton was at the zenith of his popularity as an explorer, he was invited back to his boys school, Dulwich College in London, to present some academic honors. That was about as close as he ever got to a Dulwich prize, he joked, to the cheers of the students.Indeed, Shackletons early years revealed little promise of the glories to come. An early biographer, Hugh Robert Mill, a friend and mentor of the explorer, joked that the only sign in Shackletons childhood that he would go to the Antarctic was a class ranking that was decidedly south of the equator and sometimes perilously near the Pole. At the time of the Dulwich speech, a teacher interviewed by a schoolboy magazine remembered the young Shackleton as a rolling stone. Students and teachers alike saw the boy as an introvert who was more interested in books than in games but who had a hard time with his studies. He could do better, was a common refrain in school reports.One classmate did see a hint of Shackleton in the making. He recalled some forty years after the incident how the young student had beaten up a schoolyard bully who had been picking on a smaller boy. From an early age, Shackleton gravitated to the role of protector, stepping up to the front to insist on fair play.Ernest Henry Shackleton was a natural as a big brother. He was born on February 15, 1874, in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, the second of ten children. He was a healthy and good-looking boy, with slate blue eyes and dark hair. His family and closest friends saw him as humorous, imaginative, and mischievous. By all accounts, he grew up in a loving home surrounded by attentive females. In addition to his eight sisters, his grandmother and aunts often helped his mother with the children. It is no wonder that many people would later remark on his strong feminine sensibilities. Despite a burly physique; enormous stamina; and a tough, no-nonsense manner, he could be nurturing and gentle, quick to forgive frailties, and generous without seeking thanks in return. One friend called him a Viking with a mothers heart. Both men and women saw this duality in Shackleton and found it irresistible. Shackleton himself was aware of it: I am a curious mixture with something feminine in me as well as being a man.... I have committed all sorts of crimes in thought if not always in action and dont worry much about it, yet I hate to see a child suffer, or to be false in any way.The family home had its own split personality, according to Dr. Ale