...Leadership in Crisis Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance 3/10/2014 aFriendInNeed Situation Overview: Shackleton sailed with 27 men from South Georgia Island on a British Polar expedition into South Atlantic aboard the ship called Endurance. The south pole had been recently reached in 1911. The goal of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was to become the first explorers to land on the Antarctic continent as well as cross it. The original plan was to sail Endurance through the Weddell Sea and then use dogs and sledges to support the crew of six men to march on the opposite side of Antarctica. However, their ship became trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea, before they could reach the Antarctic coast. For more than eight months, they drifted helplessly with the ocean currents that carried them to over 670 miles north. Attempts were made to free the ship at times when cracks appeared in the ice nearby, but it was of no avail. The ice around the ship was thick and solid. The wooden timbers of the Endurance, unable to withstand the pressure from the ice, eventually gave up, and massive plates of ice crushed it. Shackleton ordered his members of the expedition to take shelter on the ice floes surrounding the ship. They were able to retrieve three lifeboats and as many provisions and supplies as they could from the ship wreckage before it sank. For the next six months, the floating ice became the crew's home. They were now isolated on the drifting...
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...Table of Contents Analysis of the Endurance expedition: 3 Was the exploration a success or a failure?: 5 Relentless pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled”: 5 Analysis of the Endurance expedition: The expedition of E. S in 1915 can be analyzed as a scientific endeavor, as an entrepreneurial venture and as well as an imperial opportunity. Scientific Endeavor: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the world was eager to know the unknown parts of the world. England was not behind that race. They wanted to accumulate the fullest information about the great unexplored and little known areas of Earth’s surface. Explorers had it in their mind that the exploration ought to be conducted on scientific methods. The quest for scientific knowledge drove many explorers and their supporters to go for polar expedition. Ernest Shackleton’s journey was also considered as a scientific quest. Though the South Pole was already discovered in 1911, and it looked like he had nothing new to discover. Yet he wanted to go beyond the South Pole. The thrust of knowledge to see beyond that point is of course considered as a scientific endeavor. It is considered as an endeavor because, it was not easy to pursue. Collecting money, gathering the right crew, putting together the right nutrition for the crew members, managing in the proper way and most importantly surviving in the challenging weather were not very easy to achieve. Entrepreneurial Venture: At...
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...9-803-127 REV: DECEMBER 2, 2010 NANCY F. KOEHN Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton. — Sir Raymond Priestley, Antarctic Explorer and Geologist On January 18, 1915, the ship Endurance, carrying a highly celebrated British polar expedition, froze into the icy waters off the coast of Antarctica. The leader of the expedition, Sir Ernest Shackleton, had planned to sail his boat to the coast through the Weddell Sea, which bounded Antarctica to the north, and then march a crew of six men, supported by dogs and sledges, to the Ross Sea on the opposite side of the continent (see Exhibit 1).1 Deep in the southern hemisphere, it was early in the summer, and the Endurance was within sight of land, so Shackleton still had reason to anticipate reaching shore. The ice, however, was unusually thick for the ship’s latitude, and an unexpected southern wind froze it solid around the ship. Within hours the Endurance was completely beset, a wooden island in a sea of ice. More than eight months later, the ice still held the vessel. Instead of melting and allowing the crew to proceed on its mission, the ice, moving with ocean currents, had carried the boat over 670 miles north.2 As it moved, the ice slowly began to soften, and the tremendous force of distant currents...
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...Hilary Murray Scott C. Hammond Management 3800 8 June 2016 Was Ernest Shackleton a Good Leader? The story of Ernest Shackleton is one that defies all odds. The fated quest of the Endurance and its crew is a lesson of perseverance, intuition, social skill, and adaptability. Shackleton’s integrity was challenged before the Endurance even left port in England with the start of World War I. The captain was willing to sacrifice men and ship for the war effort after months of preparation and planning. He was a man that was searching for greatness, while keeping things simple and calm. At the core of this born leader’s personality was optimism and with generosity combined with sympathy for the crew, he made everyone feel like they were part of the team. Amidst everything working against the crew of the Endurance from being trapped in the pack ice, trying to march to the water, rowing through waters that none of us can even imagine in very small boats and being marooned on Elephant Island the crew maintained one thing. Hope. This one element dominated all the rest and was made the reality of the crew because of the realistic but optimistic expectations and vision of Ernest Shackleton. According to Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones in our readings HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership, “Inspirational leaders rely heavily on their instincts...we call them good situation sensors, and by that we mean that they can collect and interpret soft data. They can sniff out the signals in...
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...The implications of watching too much TV are many and great. All aspects of our lives are affected by watching excessive amounts of TV from our health to our personal relationships and overall quality of life. This article explores the various effects and consequences of spending too much time in front of the TV. An overwhelming number of studies have linked increased number of hours watching TV and incidence of childhood obesity. Watching too much TV fosters physical inactivity and decreased mental stimulation. Also, many of the foods advertised on TV targeted towards children promote consumption of foods with high fat and sugar content. Sedentary lifestyle along with poor diet causes complications that are detrimental to the physical and mental health of a person. Diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol are just a few of the health dangers predisposing to atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction (heart attack) and cerebrovascular accidents (stroke). Watching excess TV has also been attributed to poor academic achievement. Children and adolescents who spend most of their free time watching TV rather than reading, writing or studying impede development of their cognitive skills. Reading, writing and studying become arduous and difficult tasks for these children and they are less likely to become motivated to do school work and eventually pursue higher education. Children who are overweight or obese tend to have lower self esteem because of a combination...
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...we were, and where we are currently. "Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance," a case published by The Harvard Business School, provides an opportunity to observe the role Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, an Irish explorer in the Royal Geographic Society, played that led...
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...Marketing of Discovery Point Contest page Discovery Point in couple sentences 2 SWOT analysis 2 PEST analysis 3 Answers from marketing questionnaire 4 Marketing objectives 10 Marketing programme 10 Promotion plan 11 Media Plan 11 Press release 12 Discovery Point in couple sentences Discovery Point is the home of RRS Discovery, the ship which was built to take Captain Scott on his first expedition to Antarctica. With audio-visual shows, computer-based multimedia and displays of the actual artefacts of the crew this award-winning visitor attraction transports back in time to Antarctica in 1901. There is opportunity to learn about the men of Discovery and their amazing scientific discoveries. This is the story of Discovery from her beginnings in Dundee and Captain Scott’s remarkable Antarctic expedition, through her long ocean-going career until her final journey home. SWOT analysis Strengths Strengths Profitable organization with a well-known name and product line. Nice, well-trained staff. Reputation for creatively developing new products. Excellent locations makes this attraction visible for everyone. Profitable organization with a well-known name and product line. Nice, well-trained staff. Reputation for creatively developing new products. Excellent locations makes this attraction visible for everyone. Opportunities Opportunities New development of Waterfront and being in the one of the fastest growing area in Scotland can attract...
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...Roots of Endurance Have you ever had passion that moves you to make a change even when things are against you? The book Roots of Endurance talks about three men that concurred their obstacles and dreams to make change for their community. There are multiple stories from the book that have taught me lessons on how to be a great leader, I am going to share the three that mean the most to me. John Newtown is the first gentleman to discuss. He is known for his transformation from a slave boat owner to a devoted Christian and activist against the slave trade. Below is the story and lesson I learned from John. “A company of travelers fall into a pit: one of them gets a passengers to draw him out. Now we should not be angry with the rest for falling...
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...Animals were constantly benefiting the men of the expedition whether they were domestic or wild. Wild animals provided almost everything the crew needed for survival on the ice for over a year. Animals provided food throughout the entire expedition, whether they were seals or penguins because they were everywhere and were so easy to catch, if they weren’t the men would have died because they would have frozen without fuel for the blubber stove. In the novel there, is a time when the men start to run low on blubber. Luckily for them. As they waited on their flow group of migrating adele's stumble across their camp and were hastily slaughtered to replenish their diminishing blubber stores “The crew awoke to find that their flow had been invaded...
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...last of the crew members were rescued on August 30, 1916. More than 2 years after they had set out – in the face of the many dangers they faced during the failed expedition – Shackleton mustered together the courage, willpower, wit, & leadership and brought each and every member back home alive. b. Shackleton assembled a group of men that were willing to go with him on a hazardous journey. They were paid little, there were long months of complete darkness, and constant danger. Safe return was doubtful. The only thing they would have gotten out of it was honor and recognition. Other people would have thought them desperate or crazy. Yet it’s most likely the allure of being in a Shackleton expedition that made them go anyway. Such was the power that Shackleton wielded over them. c. Ernest Shackleton provides a very good contrast vs. Rob Hall and Steve Fischer – group leaders of the 1996 Mt. Everest tragedy. While all 3 can be said to have both formal and personal power, Shackleton was able to harness his power effectively to rally the crew to survival. His crew had well-defined roles and responsibilities. They were a team with a common overriding goal – that of survival. d. Shackleton put his people first. Yes, he was after fame & fortune but his sense of responsibility for his men was stronger. Shackleton knew that the expedition will be fraught with danger, but he also acknowledged that how the crew would behave could prove to be the most unpredictable element in the situation...
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...this challenges the audience’s assumptions about the absoluteness of the human condition. The protagonist’s discovery comes gradually at first, although it is concluded with a shocking revelation, unlike Frank Hurley. Frank Hurley’s discovery of his capacity to create composite images to convey his message has lead to a challenging of the credibility of his work and of the extent to which photography may be used as an artistic medium rather than to capture a snapshot of reality. The narrator voiceover claims: “Time has obscured what is real and what is not in Hurley’s photos. They have transcended art and history and become both.” This message is enforced by a long held, slow zoom in of the camera on one of Hurley’s negatives from the Shackleton expedition, forcing the audience to evaluate Hurley’s legitimacy. It was on this expedition that Hurley began to twist the truth in his photography, however it was in his role as an official World War I photographer that he truly began to manipulate images to serve his purpose. Nasht uses an interview of an expert in the field, Dr Martyn Jolly of the Australian National University, to emphasise his point: “On one level his photographs were fake… they were a kind of phantasmagoric mixture… It sat between photography, between cinema, and between history painting.” As Jolly speaks the camera dissolves such that one of Hurley’s composites fills the screen, and in real time it is shown how the different parts of the composite were stitched...
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...compleja, dinámica, y globalizada, llena de incertidumbres y de retos. Estamos continuamente escuchando la palabra crisis, en un ambiente pesimista y derrotista. Nos levantamos con la prima de riesgo, y nos acostamos con rescates. Parece que no controlamos nada de lo que ocurre, que no podemos hacer nada en esta situación, y que vamos a la deriva arrastrados por los acontecimientos. Sentimos que es una situación límite. En este contexto, déjenme que les hable de un hecho singular. En agosto de 1913 una expedición canadiense dirigida por el explorador Stefansson salió en el Karluk para explorar la parte más septentrional de Canada y el Polo Norte. Con unos meses de diferencia, en diciembre de 1914 una expedición británica al mando de Shackleton, salió en el Endurance para atravesar el Polo Sur. Ambas expediciones quedaron bloqueadas en los hielos y ambas tuvieron que hacer frente a situaciones terribles derivadas del frío, el hielo, la falta de provisiones y alimentos. Mientras en una el grupo se disgregó, reinó la mentira, el robo y la trampa, en la otra el trabajo en equipo,...
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...Personnel Review 28,1/2 134 Received October 1996 Revised/Accepted October 1997 Employee selection: a question of structure Jean M. Barclay Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK Keywords Employee selection, Interviews, Selection, United Kingdom Abstract The first part of a larger study into organisations’ use of structured interviewing techniques. Discusses reasons for continued popularity of interviewing in selection, despite its shortcomings. Considers the use of two structured interviewing techniques to improve selection: behavioural and situational questioning. Presents the findings of a large scale survey of UK organisations’ use of these techniques. The use of structured interviewing is rapidly increasing and is used by all sizes of organisation. Behavioural interviewing is being used more than situational interviewing, and many respondents use both techniques. Structured techniques are most commonly used for management posts. Discusses links with competency based HRM and roles of line managers and HR specialists in selection. Areas for further research are outlined. Introduction Interviewing is still the most commonly used method of selection in employment, in spite of the fact that many studies have shown it to be a very flawed technique. Given the preference of managers and human resource practitioners for interviewing, structured interviewing techniques have been suggested as a means of improving validity. Much of the research into these interviewing techniques...
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...learners, and most importantly for International Hotels, they can effectively and efficiently adapt to a new environment. As you, the Board of Directors have decided that the business requires a significant increase in the number of graduates, I am composing this report which I believe will help to further develop the graduate recruitment and selection process of International Hotels. I will also focus on an induction training programme for those applicants successful in their application. The Recruitment Process The Recruitment Process is an essential procedure for any business, according to some; recruitment is ‘the most critical human resource function for organisational survival or success’ (Taylor and Collins, 2000, p.304). Newell and Shackleton (2000, p.113) refer to recruitment as the ‘process of attracting people who might make a contribution to the particular organisation’. International Hotels’ latest positions will only be open for external recruits, with a graduate background in a business related discipline. Although this is a longer process, we as a business feel high quality graduate recruits will propel our business further and make a significant contribution to the future success of the organisation. International Hotels’ new recruitment process will be in-depth and systematic...
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...Early film (pre-1900) was dominated by the novelty of showing an event. They were single-shot moments captured on film: a train entering a station, a boat docking, or factory workers leaving work. These short films were called "actuality" films; the term "documentary" was not coined until 1926. Many of the first films, such as those made by Auguste and Louis Lumière, were a minute or less in length, due to technological limitations. Films showing many people (for example, leaving a factory) were often made for commercial reasons: the people being filmed were eager to see, for payment, the film showing them. One notable film clocked in at over an hour and a half, The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight. Using pioneering film-looping technology, Enoch J. Rector presented the entirety of a famous 1897 prize-fight on cinema screens across the country. The French surgeon Eugène-Louis Doyen started a series of surgical films sometime before July 1898. Until 1906, the year of his last film, Doyen recorded more than 60 operations. As Doyen said that his first films taught him how to correct professional errors he had been unaware of. For scientific purposes, after 1906 Doyen combined 15 of his films into three compilations, two of which survive, the six-film series Extirpation des tumeurs encapsulées (1906), and the four-film Les Opérations sur la cavité crânienne (1911). These and five other of Doyen's films survive.[8] Frame from one of Marinescu's science films (1899). Between...
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