Key leadership lessons that work from Sir Ernest Shackelton & his team on their Endurance mission.

1. Sub Zero Leadership- Sir Ernest Shackleton

2. Be Realistic. Dream!
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a
narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British
Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object
of Antarctic journeying – the crossing of the South Polar continent
from sea to sea‖.
Ernest Shackleton

3. Be Realistic. Dream!

4. Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1912)

5. 5000 applied for the job…

6. The Endurance was a three-masted sailing ship designed for Arctic
explorations and built on behalf of Norwegian Ship owners who
wanted to allocate cruises in the Arctic Sea, but due to financial
problems, was sold two years after the launch, in 1914, to the
explorer Shackleton British, Anglo Irish.

7. There are no impossible dreams, just our limited
perception of what is possible.

8. You can’t do it alone…Hire crazies.

9. 1 American, 1 Australian, 17 English, 3 Irish, 1 New
Zealander, 4 Scottish, 1 Welsh

10. And 28 Sled dogs…

11. "The ice is rafting up to a height of 10 or 15 ft. in places, the
opposing floes are moving against one another at the rate of about
200 yds. per hour. The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant
surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by
the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below"
Shackleton

12. We can not control the wind, but…

13. we can adjust the sails!

14. “Courage is the first of human qualities
because it is the quality which guarantees the
others.”
Aristotle

15. A Leader Must Be Supremely Resilient

16. Shackleton‘s spirits were wonderfully irrepressible considering the
heartbreaking reverses he has had to put up with &the frustration
of all his hopes for this year at least. One would think he had
never a care on his mind & he is the life & soul of half the
skylarking and fooling in the ship.
Frank Arthur Worsley

17. Credibility is the foundation of leadership
Nevertheless, his men looked towards "the Boss" as they called him. This collection
of Royal Naval sailors, rough and ready trawler hands and recent Cambridge
University graduates amongst others were now dependent on the man who had led
them to this place and this very unfortunate predicament.

18. ―It looks as though we shan‘t cross the Antarctic Continent after
all.‖ He paused, and then squaring his shoulders, added cheerfully,
‗It‘s a pity, but that cannot be helped. It is the men that we have
to think about.‖

19. “It would be, I considered, so much better for the men to feel that
they were progressing—even if the progress was slow—towards
land and safety, than simply to sit down and wait for the tardy
north-westerly drift to take us from the cruel waste of ice.‖
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