Roald Amundsen

effective leader. Good leaders develop through a continuous process of training, and experience. Leaders are continually working to improve their leadership skills; they are persistent and never resting. Over a hundred years ago the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his teammates became the first men to reach Antartica; five weeks later Captain Robert Falcon Scott arrive but only to be trapped and tragically die. But another polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton faced harsh conditions in a…

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allowed him to not only get his all his men home safe but made them a part of history with this trip. Shackleton had no weaknesses in my opinion throughout this journey because each situation that he went through showed his strength. For instance Roald Amundsen traveled to the South Pole before Shackleton had accomplished his mission but is not remembered in the way Shackleton is; this also provides an understanding that even though Shackleton had failed his mission, the triumphs he overcame and…

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