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

Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer
by Margot Morrell, Stephanie Capparell

Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer
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Author: Margot Morrell, Stephanie Capparell
Preface: Alexandra Shackleton
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-08-27
ISBN: 0142002364
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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

Book Review: A new slant on the Endurance expedition
Summary: 4 Stars

I've read a lot of books on Antarctic exploration, but this is the first one that's intended as a text for leadership skills: apparently the intended audience is MBA students and other budding executives. This is an interesting slant on the story, and the authors do seem to have a lot of insight into what made Shackleton a model for leadership. One oddity is that they don't say a word about his controversial decision to site the Nimrod expedition's home base at McMurdo, giving rise to much bitterness in his relations with Scott and the British Antarctic "establishment"; I'd have been interested in the authors' judgment on this.

Does a book like this really give useful guidance to executives? Beats me! The aphorisms they provide seem oversimplified, but I can't claim any expertise here. It was, however, most interesting to contrast Shackleton's leadership principles with those of the current occupant of the White House!

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