The Shackleton Saga respone

  Shackleton’s adventure was far more arduous than what I expected. We could take a glance at Shackleton’s excellence in leadership in keeping his large team of 28 people united under severe conditions. It requires great leadership to be trusted by such a big group of individuals from various backgrounds thus it displays how much Shackleton’s decision makings were trust-worthy. We can also conclude that these people who gathered up possessed tenacious endurance to keep up with the intense conditions, as they deliberately volunteered to join the adventure after looking at the job description in page 2. It feels dreadful if I were to stay in an environment marking -128.6 degrees Fahrenheit, but the landscape covered with ice described on page 3 seems really beautiful. However reckless and physically exhausting this adventure may be, I feel little sympathy with Shackleton’s attempt to challenge a frontier that remained untouched. Although Shackleton failed to accomplish this journey, we still can conclude that he exerted admirable leadership to save his crew from death or keeping them from causing chaos during the entire adventure. I’m looking forward to examine what qualities he had that made him a great leader.