Shackletons Way, Margot Morrell
Shackletons Way, Margot Morrell
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Shackleton's Way
Leadership Lessons From the Great Antarctic Explorer

Author: Margot Morrell, Stephanie Capparell

Narrator: Richard Matthews

Unabridged: 6 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/29/2001

Synopsis

From 1914 to 1916, Ernest Shackleton and his men survived the wreck of their ship Endurance, crushed in the Antarctic ice, stranded twelve hundred miles from civilization with no means of communication and no hope for rescue. 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 similar polar expeditions, every man survived—not only in good health, but also in good spirits—all due to Shackleton's leadership. 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.

"A thrilling survival story makes an inspirational handbook for a new generation of leaders." (Amazon.com)

About The Author

Margot Morrell, a 20-year veteran of corporate America, has worked in financial services and consulting. Her research into James Shackleton's leadership has taken her to such far-flung destinations as Antarctica, Australia, and Argentina.Stephanie Capparrell, a journalist for more than 20 years, is an editor for the Wall Street Journal's Marketplace page. Capparell is also a deeply respected author and filmmaker.Richard Matthews is a performer who has narrated many audiobooks, including A Short History of Nearly Everything, 1984, and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon

Powerful book about incredible leadership based on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition between 1914 - 1916 where he got every single member of his team home safely after their ship sunk in a remote, frozen sea. They were stranded on an ice floe 1,200 miles from civilization. The book describ......more

Goodreads review by Omar

Below are key excerpts from the book that I found particularly insightful: 1- "Shackleton's strategy is the antithesis of the old command-and-control models. His brand of leadership instead values flexibility, teamwork, and individual triumph. It brings back some of the gentlemanliness and decorum of......more

Goodreads review by Venky

The famed British explorer Ernest Shackleton now joins the burgeoning ranks of leadership models as Margot Morrell, a financial representative with Fidelity Investments and Stephanie Capparell, a Wall Street Journal writer resurrect the Antarctic hero with encomiums and paeans. For the unsuspecting,......more

Goodreads review by Vanessa

Shackleton was an amazing man and I appreciated how this book wove his personal accomplishments and leadership qualities with the biography of his life.......more

Quotes

"An important addition to any leader's library." -Seattle Times

"A first-rate business partner." -Publishers Weekly

"Even though its target market is leaders and managers, Shackleton's Way has much broader appeal and application." -The Boston Globe

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