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Shackleton's Way


"Dogged perseverance, skill and toil"
Image from Orde-Lees' Journal, November 4, 1915 Editor note: It's always interesting to see two people's take on a situation such as, in...
Margot Morrell
Nov 4, 2024
Keeping Up Morale
Throughout the Endurance ordeal, Shackleton made sure everyone was treated equally so there could be no ill-feelings of favoritism....
Margot Morrell
Oct 31, 2024
"Throwing away all he possessed."
Orde-Lees' Journal - October 30, 1915 "The order went forth that we should start the march at 3 p.m. and that we were to each carry only...
Margot Morrell
Oct 30, 2024
Communicating Effectively in a Crisis
Physicist Reginald James in a letter to a Shackleton biographer in the 1950s... "There was nothing of the nature of a set speech. He...
Margot Morrell
Oct 30, 2024
Leading Like Shackleton
Leading like Shackleton
Margot Morrell
Oct 29, 2024
Thinking like Shackleton
"Difficulties are just things to overcome." Shackleton
Margot Morrell
Oct 29, 2024
Hurley's account of abandoning ship...
Hurley's Journal - October 27, 1915 Chips expects to complete the coffer dam tonight, and great hopes are entertained for its success. ...
Margot Morrell
Oct 28, 2024
"A bally ship"
The journal entries, the crew wrote after abandoning ship on October 27, 1915, are remarkable for the complete absence of panic - a...
Margot Morrell
Oct 28, 2024
Leadership in a Crisis
“I do not think there is any doubt that we all owe our lives to his leadership and his power of making a loyal and coherent party out of...
Margot Morrell
Oct 28, 2024
Leading By Example
“I always found him rising to his best and inspiring confidence when things were at their blackest.” – Frank Hurley, photographer ,...
Margot Morrell
Oct 28, 2024
Shackleton's "grand example"
Orde-Lees recounts Shackleton's outstanding leadership in the moment of crisis as the Endurance crew is forced to abandon ship. As...
Margot Morrell
Oct 27, 2024
Leading By Example
Orde-Lees' Journal - October 24, 1915 In this journal entry, we see Shackleton, in a crisis, ahead of his team. #LeadingByExample "We had...
Margot Morrell
Oct 25, 2024


Getting the best from your team
Getting the best from your team.
Margot Morrell
Oct 19, 2024
"A Tower of Strength and Endurance"
“He was a tower of strength and endurance, and he never panicked in any emergency. And he was the most generous man I ever came across.”...
Margot Morrell
Oct 17, 2024


"Sparks of Real Greatness"
"Shackleton at this time showed one of his sparks of real greatness..."
Margot Morrell
Oct 17, 2024
Powerful Lesson from Shackleton
This account, written in the 1950, discusses Endurance's stay in Buenos Aires in 1914. The passage highlights a particularly powerful...
Margot Morrell
Oct 16, 2024
Shackleton's thinking on Endurance
…I think that though failure in the actual accomplishment must be recorded, there are chapters in this book of high adventure, strenuous...
Margot Morrell
Oct 16, 2024


"All the Best Points of Leadership"
Frank Wild, second-in-command on Endurance and Quest ... "I have served with Scott, Shackleton and Mawson, and have met Nansen,...
Margot Morrell
Oct 15, 2024
Keeping Up Morale
Ed. Note: Reading over Orde-Lees' diary entries from October 1915, brought to mind the passage below from Shackleton's Way . It...
Margot Morrell
Oct 14, 2024


"Preparations are in full swing..."
Entries from Frank Hurley's journal provide a glimpse of life aboard Endurance , nine months after the ship was frozen in by the ice....
Margot Morrell
Oct 12, 2024
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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
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