Ranjay Gulati

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1,792 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 1 Jun

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I talked to a Ukrainian mergers and acquisitions lawyer who is now a frontline commando in their undercover operations.

Like, why is he doing what he's doing?

And you discover that these people have found deliberate strategies that allow themselves to take on fear and take action.

First of all, I want to be very clear.

You said fearless.

I didn't say fearless.

These are fearful people.

Fearless, you're right.

There are a few handful of people out there who are fearless.

These are people taking action in the face of fear.

But you make an important point.

There's a distinction between, Aristotle made this distinction between courage and reckless.

So courageous doesn't mean reckless, first of all.

You're taking action within means and within limits.

The second piece of the puzzle is, courage doesn't always lead to good outcomes for people.

Right?

That's what courage is.

You're taking action in spite of fear.

One of my former MBA students was Francis Haugen, who became the whistleblower at Facebook.

And she felt morally compelled to do what she did.

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