Leading on the Edge: Extraordinary Stories and Leadership Insights from The World's Most Extreme Workplace

  • 4h 44m
  • Rachael Robertson
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2013

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.

In this Book

  • Leading on the Edge—Extraordinary Stories and Leadership Insights from The World’s Most Extreme Workplace
  • Preface
  • Leadership Can Be Learned, and Taught, Early
  • Very Few Decisions In Life Are Irreversible, So Make Some!
  • Always Look For Ways to Extend Yourself
  • Get Out Of Your Depth — It’s A Great Way To Learn To Swim
  • Don’t Expect Leadership to Be an Easy Ride
  • Sometimes The Right Thing Happens For The Wrong Reason!
  • People Notice When You Try to Be Someone you’re not
  • You Know People by What They Do, Not What They Say They Do
  • First Prepare Yourself, Then Leave Your Comfort Zone
  • Seeing What’s Wrong Is Easy—The Hard Part Is The Fix
  • Understand the Game, and Play Your Hand Carefully
  • Ask ‘Why?’, Then Keep Asking Why
  • Adventure Is Not Without Risk
  • Try To Stay Positive: Even the Stormiest Seas Eventually Subside
  • A Handpicked Support Team Can Be Essential
  • Make the Right Decision the Right Way
  • Step Up Onto the Balcony — But You’ll Need Time And Support
  • Ambiguity and Leadership Go Hand In Hand
  • Feeling Stressed and Overworked? It Could Be Your Boundaries
  • Good Leaders Know When To Show Emotion
  • Think Ahead and Know What You Will Do in an Emergency
  • When You’re Spending All Your Time Managing, Don’t Forget To Lead
  • It’s Important to Know Your People, Not Just the Work They Do
  • As a Leader You Are Being Watched, Always
  • Find a Reason, Any Reason, To Celebrate
  • Check In on Your People: Ask R U OK?
  • Take Care of the Little Things
  • Judgement Comes With Experience
  • ‘No Triangles’ Takes Effort and Persistence
  • Watch Out For Three-Quarter Time — Keep Your Energy Up
  • Go the Distance
  • What It Takes To Be An Inspirational Leader
  • Build Teamwork with ‘No Triangles’
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