A Response to the Zeitgeist: The (De)construction of Shackleton's Leadership
Introduction:
The story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's, an adventurer of the heroic age' of polar exploration has captured the imagination of generations of armchair readers. This paper is presented as a response to a current zeitgeist within leadership literature; namely that the "secrets of Shackleton's leadership success
are ready for application by anyone in a position of leadership today" (Morrell & Capparell, 2001). Through the deconstruction of a key element of the heroic' narrative, the sailing of a 22ft long boat across 800 miles of the Southern Ocean, I am able to present alternative interpretations of the facticity' of the voyage. These interpretations throw new light onto the role of the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none'; they will position other, displaced, actors within the central roles and explore how the construction of this leadership myth' should......
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