Into the Storm

The Role of the Leader

My primary goals for this book are to highlight the role of teamwork in organizations facing adversity and to explore ways in which leadership can be shared by team members. In today's challenging environment, the burden of leadership can be extraordinarily heavy—often more than one person alone can shoulder.

An additional goal is to explore how expectations about the nature of leadership and teamwork may have evolved since Shackleton's age of exploration. Team members in today's organizations are likely to be far better educated than they were in 1914, and perceptions of hierarchy are different. People are more informed, and they expect to play a greater role in decision making than they might have even a decade ago. ...