Ranjay Gulati
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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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 as one of the case studies.
As I'm researching it,
find that in his own memoirs, he explains that he could never have done it alone.
He had three people in what he called his support squad.
And these were his inner circle.
And what kind of support did they give him?
And then I said, let me read what he talks about.
And I connected it to these four forms of support.
First one, moral support.
Boss, you can do it.
There were so many times when Shackleton actually lost his own self-confidence.
I don't know if we can make it.
Because he made a number of wrong calls along the way.
He started doubting his own judgment.
And so he got moral support from them.
The second thing was information support.
One of them was the captain.