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Leading By Example
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Communicating Effectively
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Keeping Up Morale
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Maintaining a Positive Attitude
Shackleton's Way


"a characteristic speech"
Dump Camp, October 27, 1915 This is one of Shackleton's outstanding leadership moments as described by Worsley in his 1931 book,...

Margot Morrell
Jul 18, 2025


"a sickening sensation"
Here's Shackleton's version in South ... "The attack of the ice reached its climax at 4 p.m. ... The decks were breaking upwards and the...

Margot Morrell
Jun 24, 2025


"Indescribable"
Endurance , October 1915, colorized. In the early pages of his 1931 book, Endurance , Frank Worsley gives a vivid account of how the...

Margot Morrell
Jun 24, 2025


Thinking ahead...
Worsley's Endurance ... " Within the ship, to counteract the depression caused by darkness, we had a particularly brilliant scheme of...

Margot Morrell
Jun 11, 2025
"Shackleton had a genius..."
From Worsley's Endurance ... "Shackleton had a genius - it was neither more or less than that - for keeping those about him in high...

Margot Morrell
Jun 10, 2025



Margot Morrell
Jun 10, 2025
Keeping up morale
Worsley, Endurance ... "... I remember looking at each one of the company present, and trying to image how he would feel had he heard...

Margot Morrell
Jun 9, 2025
"with characteristic foresight"
Shackleton's outstanding trait that leaps off the page of his Endurance journal, was, as Worsley puts it, his "characteristic...

Margot Morrell
Jun 7, 2025
"I admired his self-control"
Worsley writing in his 1931 book, Endurance , about his July 13, 1915 conversation with Shackleton and Wild about the ship inevitably...

Margot Morrell
Jun 6, 2025
Endurance was going to sink
Frank Wild, who Shackleton regarded as a "second self," said, "'Yes, but we are not going to let the ice get us. The poor little Endurance...

Margot Morrell
Jun 5, 2025
More from Sir Edmund Hillary
From Sir Edmund's Introduction to Shackleton's Boat Journey ... "Most of us have a hero or two that we openly or secretly admire, even if...

Margot Morrell
Jun 4, 2025
Shackleton's Boat Journey
Edmund Hillary's Introduction to Shackleton's Boat Journey by F. A. Worsley, June 28, 1976... "I would venture to guess that if a survey...

Margot Morrell
Jun 3, 2025



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Jun 2, 2025


From prison, Paul wrote to friends in Philippi...
My great, great grandfather's Bible purchased in New York City in 1853. My interest in the Apostle Paul was triggered by a question...

Margot Morrell
Jun 1, 2025


How did the American Revolution get started?
Houses of Parliament before 1834 In the fall of 1774, the colonists sent a petition to George III explaining the contentious issues from...

Margot Morrell
Jun 1, 2025



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May 29, 2025


Shackleton on the Endurance Expedition
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Margot Morrell
May 28, 2025


Eisenhower on Leadership
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Margot Morrell
May 27, 2025
Hurley's take on the haircuts
Hurley's Journal, May 19, 1915 A form of mid-winter madness has manifested itself, all hands being seized with the desire to have their...

Margot Morrell
May 27, 2025


"Side splitting fun" aboard Endurance
Orde-Lees Journal, May 19, 1915 Aboard Endurance, May 19, 1915 We have had side splitting fun this evening. Everyone submitted to having...

Margot Morrell
May 27, 2025

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