The both stories that Shackleton gave his breakfast biscuit to
crew, Frank Wild in very first page of the chapter and a number of crews shared
hot milk with Greenstreet who accidently dropped his precious drink. I can
clearly see Shackleton’s great ability to unify the team by showing generosity
and sympathy, and this influenced strongly throughout crewmembers. It was
really interesting to see Scott’s leadership skills as almost an opposite to
Shackleton’s skills. I think Scott’s behavior build strong authority as a leader
to create a hierarchy which made an environment of command rather than intercommunication.(His
behavior seems alike to a use of dictatorship…) Despite his exhibition is
considered as heroic story, it is obvious that Scott’s leadership skills
resulted more frequent anger, resentment, and depression among crews as author
said. It is essential to keep authority in some ways as a good leader, but it
is also important to create sense of team unity regardless of status/position. Shackleton’s
egalitarian can be seen throughout exhibition such as distributing resources
(food, sleeping material), and giving a basic sense of respect for others
regardless of social roles. Despite Shckleton’s succeed for keeping his
authority while maintaining sense of equality was essential for great leader,
keeping a balance of these two ability is one of the hardest thing to do in
being a leader, My mother told me that when she acts as a group leader in her
work place, she always finds it hard to keep authority and sense of equality in
good balance for the group. Some people start taking advantage of it if she
shows “too much” equality regardless of positions by devoting herself in
working as much as others. In other hands, some people start feeling uncomfortable
raising their voices if she shows too much authority/hierarchy among group. I
think it is cornerstone for leader to evaluate the balance to achieve as a well
mobilized team.
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