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