From a young age, he devoured accounts of polar exploration, with Shackleton always his vision of a courageous leader and adventurer. Worsley, a British special forces officer born in 1960, was drawn to Shackleton’s story and the example he set. To Henry Worsley, the subject of David Grann’s latest book, “The White Darkness,” Shackleton was something more. Decades after his death in 1922, Shackleton, best known for failing to reach the South Pole and then failing to complete a trans-Antarctic route, has become an icon of successful management under extreme duress, a textbook case of a role model gifted with people skills with a lot to teach today’s middle managers. In recent years the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has become a posthumous self-help guru books like “Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition” and “Shackleton: Leadership Lessons from Antarctica” litter the self-improvement section like discarded, frozen camping supplies.
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