SAVAGE COAST is raw leadership in action. This book offers an almost unrivalled look inside the reality of complex leadership decision-making when almost everything conspires against the expedition’s success, or even its survival. In this story of ongoing crises there are non-stop insights and valuable lessons for those who can expect to be engaged in tomorrow's global front-line climate crisis leadership.
Here is the leader’s inside story of Australia’s 1985-86 historic first Arctic expedition, to an uncharted coast in early winter. It’s an epic of what happens to a $3 million voyage to the end of the world where all your plans are blown away by a winter hurricane and all that’s left is slow starvation in a soaked sleeping bag on a wave-battered coastal rock, with no possibility of rescue or of your bodies ever being discovered, except by hungry polar bears.
Reviews - "Timeless insights into the hidden depths of leadership” -Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt, OBE, FRGS, world’s greatest living explorer
“Fully captures the reality of leadership.” - Dr Iain McCormack, Polar Leadership Psychologist
“Deep insights into complexity and unpredictability.” - Sir Gustav Nossal, Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
“Reveals that leadership cannot be taught, no leader is infallible and there is no single recipe for success.” - Richard Gilmore, Executive Director: EarthWatch Trust