Robert Falcon Scott

When the Terra Nova's engine-room fires were flooded during a storm and the engineer declared himself beaten, personally organized bucket brigades and ordered the bulkhead cut through to clear the pump suctions, as recorded in his own journal.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard, an independent expedition member, credited him with unusual organizational strength for polar leadership, writing "for a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott."

His own journal frankly admits uncertainty about the Antarctic pack ice -- "I really don't know what to think of the pack, or when to hope for open water" -- while describing himself continuing methodical soundings, temperature readings, and sketching rather than treating the uncertainty as reason to stop.

Continuing disciplined observation while openly uncertain of the outcome is part of the basis for the profile's ambiguity_tolerance score. Ambiguity Tolerance

After the Discovery expedition's first season was organizationally chaotic -- in Cherry-Garrard's words, "food, clothing, everything was wrong, the whole system was bad" -- undertook what Cherry-Garrard called "a winter of drastic reorganization" before the next season.

Responding to a documented organizational failure with a full system rebuild, rather than only incremental fixes, is part of the basis for the profile's planning_orientation score. Planning Orientation