Ranjay Gulati

Sure.

I must give you an embarrassing example of this.

Please.

So for 15 years, one of my favorite leadership case studies that I teach in the classroom is about the South Pole explorer, Ernest Shackleton.

So Shackleton in 1913 goes down to the South Pole and he's going to navigate from one end of the pole to the other.

And somehow he and his 28 men, they get stuck on ice.

And the winter comes and the winter is minus 70 degrees.

Somehow they survive the winter.

But at the end of the winter, when summer is coming, the melting ice crushes the ship and sinks it.

And now they only have three lifeboats, 21 foot long in the roughest sea on the planet.

Even today to cross the Ross Sea, it's really, really hard journey.

And there's nobody down there.

And these guys survive for two and a half years and somehow magically he brings them all back alive.

We have video here, primitive camera then.

We show the video.

And the whole case is about Shackleton did this and Shackleton he did this and Shackleton did that.

As I was researching this book, I thought, oh, let me bring Shackleton in as one of the case studies.

So I bring Shackleton in as one of the case studies.

As I'm researching it, I find that

In his own memoirs, he explains that he could never have done it alone.