Shackleton's Morale Leadership
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Sam Parr shares a story about Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition and the leadership lessons learned from it.
"In the early 1900s, between 1900-1925, it was called the heroic era of arctic expedition. They had steam engines and combustible engines, but still had sails and no radios. These guys would sail from England all the way down to Antarctica to explore and map the southern part of the world.
Ernest Shackleton led an expedition of 30 people and they got stuck in Antarctica. It became a 2-2.5 year expedition just to survive. What I learned reading that book is the people you're leading mimic the behavior of the leader.
For a while, I was against this 'we're gonna change the world' mentality, and thought I should be vulnerable and let people know when things aren't going well. But after reading that book, I realized no - you have to convince everyone that it's gonna be okay no matter what. The pack mimics the behavior of the leader."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.