Leading On the Edge - By Rachael Robertson

Leading On the Edge

Extraordinary stories and leadership insights from the world’s most extreme workplace

By Rachael Robertson

If you think your job is tough, imagine leading a one-year expedition of 17 strangers where you’re on duty all day, every day in the coldest, windiest, and darkest place imaginable.

Leading On The Edge is a compelling account of Rachael Robertson’s inspiring journey to the wilds of Antarctica, as one of the youngest people to ever lead an expedition and one of the first women.

After 15 years leading diverse and remote teams and business units, Rachael took the jump and led the 58th annual expedition to Antarctica after seeing the job advertised in the paper.

Based on Rachael’s journals, Leading On The Edge provides a rare insight into the extreme highs and lows of leading a team of 17, round the clock for a full year—through months of darkness and with no escape from the frigid cold, howling winds, and each other. Through this inspirational journey, Rachael discovered powerful lessons about what real, authentic leadership is and how to build a resilient and effective team from a group of diverse individuals she hadn’t personally recruited.

Learn about ‘life in the freezer’, the plane crash, how ‘the bacon war’ nearly derailed a $20M science program and other unique stories backed by uncommon insight.

Managers, leaders and anyone stuck in a rut will be inspired as Rachael shares her leadership skills and practical tools developed by running a community of workers in one of the world’s harshest environments.

“The intensity of this leadership role, where the leader is on-duty all day, every day, for 12 months with no respite, gave me the opportunity to road test my leadership ideas the hard way - without the luxury of peers, a desk or any way out! It was a ‘leadership laboratory’ in the most extreme, hostile environment on Earth,” said Rachael Robertson.

Leading on the Edge explains what it's like to take charge of a team when you've no place to hide and how truly harsh environments can serve as a leadership laboratory that results in truly effective, authentic leadership.

About the author:
Rachael Robertson is one of the most in-demand inspirational business speakers and leadership consultants in the world. After more than 20 years' experience leading teams in complex and challenging environments, Rachael is now transforming leadership around the globe. For more information visit www.rachaelrobertson.com

ISBN: 9780730305491
Print Price: AUD$29.95, NZD$33.99

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