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This week I'm joined by Ralph Emmerson, a GP, GP trainer and self confessed "Shackleton nerd" to talk about Alfred Lansing's 1950s record of the ill fated expedition to the pole led by Shackleton Endurance. It's a story that transcends time and has so much to offer when you reflect on the attributes of leadership that we need in crisis. When we reflect on the Covid 19 pandemic, the loss of the traditional roles and rules and the ethics and morality of "doing what seems right in the circumstances" and how simply surviving is often the greatest miracle this book really comes into its own. It's an adventure story, there's an ending we perhaps all know already but undoubtedly there's a human miracle story in there for us all.
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This week I'm joined by Ralph Emmerson, a GP, GP trainer and self confessed "Shackleton nerd" to talk about Alfred Lansing's 1950s record of the ill fated expedition to the pole led by Shackleton Endurance. It's a story that transcends time and has so much to offer when you reflect on the attributes of leadership that we need in crisis. When we reflect on the Covid 19 pandemic, the loss of the traditional roles and rules and the ethics and morality of "doing what seems right in the circumstances" and how simply surviving is often the greatest miracle this book really comes into its own. It's an adventure story, there's an ending we perhaps all know already but undoubtedly there's a human miracle story in there for us all.

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