Leading on the Edge (ePub)

Lessons on authentic leadership from the 58th annual Antarctic
expedition

In Leading on the Edge, successful business speaker and
consultant Rachael Robertson shares the lessons she learned as
leader of a year-long expedition to the wilds of Antarctica.
Leading eighteen strangers around the clock for a full
year--through months of darkness and with no escape from the
frigid cold, howling winds, and each other--Robertson learned
powerful lessons about what real, authentic leadership is. Here,
she offers a deeply honest and humorous account of what it takes to
survive and lead in the harshest environment on Earth. What emerges
from her graphic account is a series of powerful and practical
lessons for business leaders and managers everywhere.

* Features practical leadership lessons that are particularly
helpful for any leader who must get the best out of the team
they've got

* Features solutions to many challenges common to all
workplaces

* Includes real excerpts from Robertson's personal journals
through twelve months of leading in the most challenging
environment in the world

* Written by a popular speaker and business leader who has
appeared at more than 350 national and international conferences
and events for a wide range of industries

Leading on the Edge explains what it's like to take
charge when you've no place to hide and how truly harsh
environments can serve as a leadership laboratory that results in
truly effective, authentic leadership.