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As new condition white boards, dark gray spine and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Authors' Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote; Preface; Introduction; Shackleton's Crews; Bibliography; Acknowledgments and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and map illustrated front and rear endpapers. "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. Now, 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 men 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 for 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 heath, but also in good spirits - all due to the leadership of Shackleton. This once-forgotten explorer is riding a wave of "Shackleton-mania," as described in a 1998 Wall Street Journal article by Stephanie Capparell. Those who have taken Shackleton's leadership lessons to heart include the secretary of the navy, the commander of Apollo 13, and the co-founder of TheStreet dot com, and they tell how Shackleton has helped them lead the way in their careers. Now, in Shackleton's Way, the secrets of Shackleton's leadership success are fully analyzed for the first time and are ready for application by anyone in a position of leadership today. Written by two veteran business observers, Shackleton's Way details universal leadership tactics set against the thrilling survival story of the Endurance expedition. Whether it's hiring good workers, supporting and inspiring employees to do their best, managing a crisis with limited personnel and resources, creating order out of chaos, or leading by personal example with optimism, egalitarianism, humor, strength, ingenuity, intelligence, and compassion, Ernest Shackleton set an example we can all follow. Illustrated with photographer Frank Hurley's masterpieces and other rarely seen photos, Shackleton's Way is filled with fascinating and practical lessons of a leader who succeeded by putting people first and triumphing brilliantly when all the odds were against him." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "Using the Endurance saga as a case history, (the authors) have turned an analysis of Shackleton's effective methods into a leadership handbook that reads like an adventure story. They show how successful leaders have patterned themselves on the incomparable Antarctic explorer. Better yet, they have neatly codified his winning strategies for the rest of us." - Daa Sobel, author. "Shackleton's Way is filled with gritty examples of the nature of high risk leadership. The characteristics of leadership by example, team building and the spirit needed to overcome great obstacles and sustain a team under stress are well defined here. This book would have been required reading for my flight directors and mission controllers." - Gene Kranz, former flight director, NASA, and author. "Shackleton's story captures the true essence of leadership: to help each person achieve his best in order to work together to achieve what some view as the impossible. The lessons in this book are timeless and invaluable." - Patrick T. Harker, dean, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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