“If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.” Sir Earnest Shackleton
Some say leaders are born. Others say they are molded. Throughout history, leaders have forged new paths for others to follow.
In 1914, Sir Earnest Shackleton lead 27 men for almost two years to a harrowing fight for their lives after the wreck of their Antarctic vessel: The Endurance let them stranded on an ice floe 12 hundred miles from a civilization with no means of communication and no hope of rescue. The temperatures were so low the men could hear the ice freeze. They subsisted on a diet of penguins, seals and ultimately dogs.
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