Book 'Em Review of <I>Leading at the Edge</i> and <i>The Leap</i>
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No, you'll probably never have to deal with a sea of iceswallowing your ship. But when leadership expert Dennis N.T.Perkins details how Sir Ernest Shackleton and crew faced andconquered like situations and translates their solutions intoeveryday life in Leading at the Edge (AMACOM, $24.95),you'll certainly feel as if you could've survived a journeyto the South Pole.
Tom Ashbrook offers more guts and glory-not on the high seas,but no less frightening. In The Leap (Houghton Mifflin,$25), the former Boston Globe editor describes how, aftersensing his "career was becoming irrelevant," heforfeited security and even jeopardized his marriage to startHomePortfolio.com. An early mid-life crisis plus no businessexperience equals: scary...but profitable.
