By the Editor: Muscular leadership has its place. Perhaps too often in a more sensitively attuned world we forget that circumstances will at times demand a robust style of leadership and qualities of a leader that puts him out in front of his troops in facing danger. Fail as such a leader and all will perish. The author provides a compelling case study that might not sit easy with more avant-garde leadership techniques. What is your opinion? Fig. 1: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS. Captain Robert Falcon Scott – Scott of the Antarctic – was a staunch, and perhaps rather old-fashi…
