survival
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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…spring and 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 themselv…
- Selecting the Company…esource, the ability to contribute to the communal life—to join a chorus, to share a laugh, to momentarily dispel the gathering gloom—was a survival skill as critical as any ability to calibrate an instrument. The query tested for a willingness to participate, for a personality that coul…
- The Last Leave-Taking…The form was consistent: the assertion of individual consciousness against an environment that threatened to dissolve it into mere physical survival. The new year brought no release. The Endurance remained in the pack, her position oscillating with the pressures of wind and current. The…