Ranjay Gulati
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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.
She lost her job and her career.
So sometimes it doesn't have a good outcome.
So it's not like courage is, that's convenient courage.
I'll do something, but as long as the outcome is good, I'm courageous.
No.