There is a famous parable shared with business students in colleges across America, used to showcase a tendency of organizations to be unaware of the slow evolution of their internal culture, called ‘the boiling frog’ theory. The story goes that a frog placed in boiling water will fight like mad to escape, but one placed in lukewarm water that slowly rises in temperature will not notice the changes until it is doomed. While this story has been scientifically disproven , it st

Real leaders, wrote the novelist David Foster Wallace, are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.” At the end of 1914, Ernest Shackleton led the first-ever attempt to cross Antarctica on foot. That attempt was a failure. Yet Shackleton is widely regarded as an exceptional leader and is often used as an example of what h