Anne Morriss

Hello, everyone.

Welcome back to a brand new season of Fixable from the TED Audio Collective.

I'm your host, Anne Morris.

I'm a company builder and leadership coach.

Happy New Year to all of our fixtures out there.

We missed you desperately, and we could not be more excited to be reunited today.

We have so many great episodes in the works.

We can't wait to share them with you.

And in the meantime, please keep sending us questions so we can keep answering them on the show.

And let us know if you want to join us to solve some problems together.

Really, this is our idea of a good time.

We're at a point in our lives where we are not fighting it anymore.

No more.

So Frances, to kick off this season of possibility and new beginnings, we wanted to explore an idea that you and I are really passionate about, which is that we all must have the courage to be bad at some things.

Yeah, this is insight that got you tenure at the Harvard Business School.

Oh, that's a whole other episode, my dear.

All right.

We'll wait till the marry up episode.

But yeah, what we want to get into today is how important it is in organizations to be willing to...

suck at some part of the value proposition and the basic idea is that in order to excel where it matters most as you said you have to be willing to underperform and according to your research not just underperform really phone it in in in some other areas and the key is to be very intentional about those other areas as well