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Summary: Experience this book...
Review: This is the type of book that you will seek out over and over again as you gain insight and understanding into your own individual leadership. Key strategies taught through this powerful story have helped guide me through the work that I have done and continue to do. The concept of teaching through storytelling captures the reader in an emotional way and imprints the learning so that the experience is long rememberd.
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Summary: Adventure, Survival, & Leadership
Review: This outstanding book is a collection and analysis of leadership lessons from Ernest Shackleton's heroic 1914-1916 Antarctic expedition at the edge of survival. Shackleton's amazing adventure saga alone is a great read, but it is the leadership insights that make this book a "must-read."Perkins carefully organized the book into four inter-related parts. After briefly summarizing the Shackleton expedition, in Part One Perkins presents his 10 strategies for leading at the edge: 1- Vision and Quick Victories: Never lose sight of the ultimate goal, and focus energy on short-term objectives. 2- Symbolism and Personal Example: Set a personal example with visible, memorable symbols and behaviors. 3- Optimism and Reality: Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay grounded in reality. 4- Stamina: Take care of yourself: Maintain your stamina and let go of guilt. 5- The Team Message: Reinforce the team message constantly: "We are one - we live or die together." 6- Core Team Values: Minimize status differences and insist on courtesy and mutual respect. 7- Conflict: Master conflict - deal with anger in small doses, engage dissidents, and avoid needless power struggles. 8- Lighten Up!: Find something to celebrate and something to laugh about. 9- Risk: Be willing to take the Big Risk. 10- Tenacious Creativity: Never give up - there's always another move. Interwoven with these strategies are detailed accounts from Shackleton's expedition and real world business examples to fully illustrate the strategies' applicability to today's leadership environments.
Part Two is case studies of four organizations that successfully applied the strategies and achieved remarkable success. In Part Three, Perkins "outlines a number of qualities and actions that...contribute to living, learning, and thriving at "The Edge."" Part Four provides the reader with some tools to further develop individual leadership skills. Written by a former combat Lieutenant of Marines in Vietnam and current "President of The Syncretics Group, a consultancy that focuses on effective leadership in demanding environments," this book was a very enjoyable and informative study of leadership. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning about, and seeing if they have what it takes for, leading at the edge.
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Summary: Adventure, Survival, & Leadership
Review: This outstanding book is a collection and analysis of leadership lessons from Ernest Shackleton's heroic 1914-1916 Antarctic expedition at the edge of survival. Shackleton's amazing adventure saga alone is a great read, but it is the leadership insights that make this book a "must-read." Perkins carefully organized the book into four inter-related parts. After briefly summarizing the Shackleton expedition, in Part One Perkins presents his 10 strategies for leading at the edge: 1-Vision and Quick Victories: Never lose sight of the ultimate goal, and focus energy on short-term objectives. 2-Symbolism and Personal Example: Set a personal example with visible, memorable symbols and behaviors. 3-Optimism and Reality: Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay grounded in reality. 4-Stamina: Take care of yourself: Maintain your stamina and let go of guilt. 5-The Team Message: Reinforce the team message constantly: "We are one - we live or die together." 6-Core Team Values: Minimize status differences and insist on courtesy and mutual respect. 7-Conflict: Master conflict - deal with anger in small doses, engage dissidents, and avoid needless power struggles. 8-Lighten Up!: Find something to celebrate and something to laugh about. 9-Risk: Be willing to take the Big Risk. 10-Tenacious Creativity: Never give up - there's always another move. Interwoven with these strategies are detailed accounts from Shackleton's expedition and real world business examples to fully illustrate the strategies' applicability to today's leadership environments.
Part Two is case studies of four organizations that successfully applied the strategies and achieved remarkable success. In Part Three, Perkins "outlines a number of qualities and actions that...contribute to living, learning, and thriving at "The Edge."" Part Four provides the reader with some tools to further develop individual leadership skills. Written by a former combat Lieutenant of Marines in Vietnam and current "President of The Syncretics Group, a consultancy that focuses on effective leadership in demanding environments," this book was a very enjoyable and informative study of leadership. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning about, and seeing if they have what it takes for, leading at the edge.
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Summary: Insightful!
Review: When British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton was busy saving his crew after a shipwreck in the Antarctic in 1914, you would guess that he wasn't thinking much about teaching leadership lessons. But author Dennis N.T. Perkins uses Shackleton's expedition to show how the leadership principles the explorer exercised can be applied to your work. He even adds modern case studies as illustration. This excellent book is at its best when it describes Shackleton's courageous rescue. He led his men to safety through a frozen wilderness by focusing on the ultimate goal of survival, setting a personal example, overcoming conflict, minimizing status differences, stressing teamwork and applying other essential leadership qualities. Though the principles may sound familiar, the book provides a dramatic new view of them, and it is written in a clear, crisp style. We at getAbstract.com recommend it to all corporate explorers.
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