Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer

ISBN-13: 9781857883183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str.

Stephanie Capparell

Opis

In 1914, Shackleton led 27 men through a fight for their lives after they became stranded on an ice flow. Every man survived, ascribing it to Shackleton's superb leadership. This book draws on anecdotes and interviews to illustrate Shackleton's tactics.

Recenzje

I recall the moment as vividly as if I had lived it myself: Ernest Shackleton stands before me, exhorting the stranded Endurance crew to jettison every ounce of unnecessary weight so we can run for our lives across the Antarctic pack ice. For emphasis and example, 'The Boss' tosses his own gold cigarette case into the snow. Using the Endurance saga as a case history, Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell have turned a thirteen-year analysis of Shackleton's effective methods into a leadership handbook that reads like an adventure story. They show how successful military leaders, dot com entrepreneurs, investment bankers, educators, corperate executives, and even an astronaut have patterned themselves on the incomparable Antarctic explorer. Better yet, they have neatly codified his winning strategies for the rest of us. Dava Sobel, author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter

O autorze

Margot Morrell has been a student of Shackleton's life for more than sixteen years and has a master's degree in library science. She has worked in corporate America for twenty-four years. She lives in New York City. Stephanie Capparell, a journalist for more than twenty years, is an editor for The Wall Street Journal's 'Marketplace' page. She has a master's degree in international affairs. She lives in New York City.