No lack of endeavour

A manager with between two and five years experience is accustomed to working with others, to solving problems, to making decisions, to coping with frustrations, to acquiring learning, to working long hours. But consider the implications of adding a new ingredient to each of these components of the job. Suppose that the other people with whom he works are his professional equals. Suppose that the decisions may involve some degree of physical risk or hardship. Suppose that the frustrations are posed by the weather, the terrain and the unpredictability of men and nature; that the learning and the problem‐solving have to do with the assimilation and use of unfamiliar skills, logistics, safety, personal interdependence and morale; and that the long hours occupy virtually every waking moment.