Shackleton Created the Crisis. Why Do We Teach Him as the Hero?

In today's episode:

A famous polar explorer studied in business schools everywhere turns out to have been a disaster of planning and poor decisions, while the one who actually succeeded is rarely talked about.

There's a name for the bias that makes dramatic, fire-fighting leaders look heroic, even when they're the ones who started the fire.

A reorganization at a major company got celebrated as visionary leadership, when it was really just one executive cleaning up a mess he created two years earlier.

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