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- Endurance: Shackleton's Impossible Voyage Home Leadership at the Edge of the World · 李思特Think
In 1914, Ernest Shackleton set out to cross Antarctica. By 1915, his ship was crushed in the ice, and his twenty-eight-man crew was stranded on the most inhospitable continent on Earth.
- The Unfinished Business…nd summer of 1914, Shackleton worked on his crew. His recruitment philosophy became the first, and perhaps most definitive, act of survival leadership he would practice. In an enterprise where every physical plan could be destroyed by ice, what would remain were the men themselves—their te…
- Selecting the Company…science and empire, the story of Scott’s polar party’s demise had, within exploration circles, sparked a fierce, if discreet, debate about leadership, preparation, and group dynamics. The official inquiries and published narratives focused on weather, scurvy, and misfortune. But a substra…
- The Last Leave-Taking…te now, the full company assembled, and Shackleton addressed them with the mixture of encouragement and warning that would characterize his leadership: the journey ahead was difficult, the outcome uncertain, but the opportunity was genuine and the preparation sufficient. They sailed from B…