Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme Adventurers

It was April 3, 2017, and Lisa Blair was awoken by a deafeningly loud bang from outside her cabin. She was sailing her racing yacht Climate Action Now through a storm on the Southern Ocean and had finally lain down for some rest.

“I bolted out of bed and looked out my dome,” she recalls, referencing the acrylic dome that protrudes through the roof of her yacht’s cabin. “I had this clear view outside. My mast, which is 22 meters long (66 feet), was just shaking from side to side like a snake in the air because there was no support in the middle of the mast. I knew at that point I had broken a piece of rigging wire and I needed to change direction, like, yesterday. This was serious.”

For Lisa, it had been a storm like many others on her journey, ...