Ernest Shackleton

1. Was Shackleton a leader or an entrepreneur? How effective was he?
During his entire life Shackleton has displayed an amazing mix of abilities that belong both to leaders and entrepreneurs. Nowadays, we may fail to see that behind a leader there are many people working for him or for his vision. One may call these people entrepreneurs. They are able to perform difficult task starting from scratch, but they usually lack a vision of their own, or at least they lack a vision that addresses more than their own person.
Shackleton, on the other hand, had to perform ask assimilated to both being a leader and an entrepreneur. Putting in balance all these things, it seems to me that Shackleton was a leader, who had to do the work of an entrepreneur in order to achieve his vision.
I consider that Shackleton was effective in both his endeavors, as an entrepreneur and as a leader. He succeeded in organizing the expedition (logistic wise) as an entrepreneur, he......

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