One of the biggest leadership lesson one can extract from Shackleton's experiences while his expedition ship, the Endurance, was trapped and then crushed in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea was the fact that during the 22-month Shackleton had to face changing circumstances and constant danger that enabled to bring the best in each of his crew member. Each contributed to the team's survival, starting with Captain Frank Worsley, whose exceptional navigation guided the men to Elephant and South Georgia Islands, carpenter Chippy McNeish, who tooke care of the lifeboats, cook Charles Green, who created meals day after day with scarce resources, Alexander Macklin and James McIlroy, two doctors, who saved steward Perce Blackborow from gangrene resulting from frostbite and ending in the second-in-command Frank Wild, who served as front man of the 21 men on Elephant Island after the departure of Shackleton for South Georgia. Twenty-eight ordinary-turned-extraordinary men, who survived nearly two years of unimaginable hardship at the end of the Earth, led by Shackleton's example and his ability to constantly ,under blistering conditions, boosting Team spirit and morale motivating and inspiring his crew to achieve their common objective the survival of All expedition members.
