Week #4: Ch. 4 Stamina and Ch. 5 The Team Message

Reading chapter 4, I was surprised to know that Shackleton died by heart attack which was caused because he overworked. Shackleton seemed so perfect as a leader, reading previous chapters, like setting goals, making speeches, and being opitimistic but seeing reality also. It was shocking to me to think that he cared about others a lot and he thought well about how can all crews work as a group well, but he just didn't think about himself very much, that he didn't think of taking rest for himself. In the previous chapters, it said that he often gave a little portion of buiscuit to his crews though he himself was hungry. But I wonder what he was to do if he was starved to death during the exploration because he gave the rest of his food to his crews and didn't eat that much. I learned it is also important to care about my health and condition if I were a leader of something, and to know limitation of myself and depend on others.
Reading chapter 5, I wondered why the team conditions were so different in the situations of Shackleton's and Krakauer's. They were both in the very tough situation and it said "the Everest climbers were much better prepared than any of Shackleton's team." They might not have had a leader......Even if not, I can feel the teamwork and emotion of people really depend on leaders in my part-time work place.
In my working place, there is always one manager who decides who does what and when, and has responsibility for all what happen - a leader. A manager who is good at doing this job can make the atmosphere of other crews very good even if there is tough condition (ex. there is not enough number of crews to work, the number of customers making line, etc.). But a manager who is not good at doing this job, or who really doesn't think about other crews, or be angry at crews when they make mistakes, makes the atmosphere very strained and bad.