What if the missing ingredient in every failed development project, broken institution, and dysfunctional team is not better rules but love? Deepa Narayan, who spent 35 years working on global poverty, including 20 years with the UN and World Bank, argues that power without love produces coercion, and love without power produces sentimentality. Real collaboration requires both. Subscribe for more episodes on how collaboration works in practice. Deepa Narayan brings an unusual combination of lived experience and institutional authority to the question of collaboration. She has lived in villages for a decade working with women's groups, served as senior advisor to the World Bank, and conducted hundreds of interviews across India on masculinity, femininity, and the hidden dynamics that determine whether people cooperate or dominate. Her framework is ...