Reading chapter 6, I was impressed by Shackleton's sense of equality. I felt especially so when reading doing lottery for getting reindeer sleeping bags. We don't usually make a lottery and do things fair when we are on the edge. For example, when there are some snacks and many people want them because they are almost starved to death, they might do rock paper scissors (I think rock paper scissors is more unfair than lottery). And I was surprised by the fact that Shackleton himself didn't participate in the lottery though he suggested to do lottery. Well, he seemed to be a very nice person, but as I mentioned before, I think he should have thought himself as more important prescence since he was a leader. He was too kind.
And reading chapter 7, I understood just how important the presence of a leader is. In case of Karluk, separation of the leader from the team caused the tradgic result. I learned a leader should never get away from a group, and also one group should never be divided. At the edge, it seems people should be all together and do same things rather than separate and do different things.
Hi Mari,
返信削除Thanks for these fine posts. I am very happy to hear you are a collaborative negotiator, and I appreciate the summaries of these chapters. I too have wondered if maybe Shackleton was sometimes too kind, and maybe should have been a little more selfish.