By Rachel Robertson
Severe office : major at the side : outstanding tales and management Insights from the World's such a lot severe Workplace
Robertson, Rachael
Pages: 317
Publisher: Wiley (Wiley provided the Australian e-book retail version--John Wiley & Sons Australia to ebrary)
Location: Somerset, NJ, united states
Date released: 08/2013 (2014 e-book date for Australian publishing)
Language: en
LC name quantity: HD57.7 -- .R63 2014eb
eISBN: 9780730305507 (Australian model 9780730305521)
pISBN: 9780730305491 (Australian model 9780730305491)
Dewey Decimal quantity:
OCLC quantity: 868826609
Subjects: Robertson, Rachael -- commute -- Antarctica. Australian nationwide Antarctic examine Expeditions. management -- Australia -- Biography. management -- Antarctica -- Biography. groups within the place of work -- Antarctica. Antarctica -- Biography.
"Lessons on actual management from the 58th annual Antarctic expedition
In major at the facet, winning company speaker and advisor Rachael Robertson stocks the teachings she discovered as chief of a year-long excursion to the wilds of Antarctica. prime eighteen strangers round the clock for a whole year—through months of darkness and with out get away from the frigid chilly, howling winds, and every other—Robertson realized strong classes approximately what genuine, actual management is. right here, she deals a deeply sincere and funny account of what it takes to outlive and lead within the most harsh surroundings on the earth. What emerges from her image account is a chain of robust and sensible classes for enterprise leaders and bosses everywhere.
Features functional management classes which are rather worthwhile for any chief who needs to get the simplest out of the workforce they've got
Features suggestions to many demanding situations universal to all workplaces
Includes actual excerpts from Robertson's own journals via 365 days of prime within the so much demanding surroundings within the world
Written through a well-liked speaker and enterprise chief who has seemed at greater than 350 nationwide and overseas meetings and occasions for a variety of industries
Leading at the side explains what it's prefer to take cost while you've no position to conceal and the way really harsh environments can function a management laboratory that leads to actually potent, real leadership."
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He said. ’ Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up! That was my background and security check. The psych test was the last selection hoop. And it was hilarious! Yes, I WOULD prefer a beautifully written poem to a well-crafted handgun! But in spite of myself I took it seriously. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was (and is) a respected personality test to assess mental health that has been extensively used by Western governments since the 1940s. I hadn’t seen it before, but I had heard about it.
I do feel like I am being tested! ’ Transparency and honesty Throughout all the tests and assessments I knew it was critically important to be 100 per cent honest with myself and my assessors. indd 45 28/06/13 12:41 PM Leading on the Edge want to find out when I was six months from the nearest professional help. Antarctica is the last place you want to be if you’re not the right person for the job. I had to trust that the AAD knew what they were doing, and trust the process. If I didn’t fit, great!
Good teeth are important — the station doctor has only two weeks’ training at the dental hospital to qualify as the station ‘dentist’ so it’s really not the time or place to ponder root canal surgery. Then it was time for the security check. I had gone through a security check once before. It was a simple affair: two or three pages of questions and a quick phone interview. I was very surprised to find that not only was this questionnaire much longer and more detailed, but they were also going to dig deep into my past.