Ernest Shackleton’s Lessons for Leaders in Harsh Climates

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🗓️ 8 November 2012

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School historian and editor of "The Story of American Business."

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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the H-B-Rara Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.1	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.6	I'm here today with Harvard Business School historian
0:36.9	Nancy Kane.
0:38.0	Nancy, thanks so much for joining us today.
0:39.8	Pleasure, Sarah.
0:41.5	Nancy, here at HBR, we are celebrating our 90th birthday. But even as we celebrate
0:46.2	the big ideas and frameworks that have hopefully helped improve the practice of
0:49.6	management over the last century, we're all too aware that right now is not a great time for a birthday party.
0:56.4	Around the world we're facing rising economic uncertainty and volatility.
1:00.1	Competitive Advantage has never felt more fleeting in some ways, and we see disruption all around us.
1:05.8	So I'd like to talk with you today about someone you've used as an example of the kind of
1:10.1	leader we need now.
1:11.9	He is the subject of a case study you wrote and from what I've heard
1:15.2	is one that your students get the most interested and invested in. Ernest Shackleton.
1:20.7	So tell us why an explorer from a hundred years ago is the right kind of leader for today's business climate.
1:26.0	Shackleton, I think, is a person of great relevance and emotional power for us today because first the stakes involved in the moment he found
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