True Leadership in Crisis

Listen. When your ship gets crushed by Antarctic ice and you're stranded with twenty eight

men in the most hostile place on Earth, most leaders would panic.

Ernest Shackleton did the opposite. For months he led his crew across unstable ice floes,

keeping morale high when death seemed certain. Then he made an insane decision.

He sailed a tiny lifeboat eight hundred miles through the most violent ocean on the planet to

find rescue. The odds were impossible. The conditions were brutal. But Shackleton refused

to lose a single man. He failed his original mission to cross Antarctica,

but he succeeded at something far more important. Every person came home alive.