Shackleton's Way
Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer
Sir Ernest Shackleton has been called "the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none" for saving the lives of the twenty-seven men stranded with him on an Antarctic ice-floe for almost two years.
In Shackleton's Way, Shackleton scholar, Margot Morrell, and Wall Street Journal writer, Stephanie Capparell, team up to present Shackleton's timeless leadership skills - skills that can be learned by anyone - to a new generation.
From 1914 to 1916, Ernest Shackleton and his crew survived the wreck of their ship, Endurance, in the crushing Antarctic ice, stranded twelve hundred miles from civilization with no means of communication and no hope of rescue. The temperatures were so low the men could hear water freeze. They subsisted on a diet of penguins, dogs and seals. And when the ice began to break up, Shackleton set out to save them all on his heroic eight-hundred-mile trip across the frigid South Atlantic - in little more than a rowboat. Unlike most other polar expeditions, every man survived - not only in good health, but also in remarkably good spirits - all due to Shackleton's leadership.
"Shackleton's Way would have been required reading for my flight directors and mission controllers."
Gene Kranz, former flight director, NASA
and author of Failure Is Not an Option.
