Citation (IEEE): D. N. T. Perkins, Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition. New York, NY, USA: AMACOM, 2000.
What it argues
Uses Shackleton’s 1914–1916 Antarctic expedition, in which the whole crew survived the loss of their ship and nearly two years in the ice, to extract strategies for leading under extreme uncertainty. Each chapter pairs a part of the story with a leadership strategy, a contrasting case, and reflection exercises for applying it in organizations.