Anne Morris

And learning, it doesn't become infectious.

Give me a more mediocre team than a bunch of fantastic soloists.

All right, tell us about the superhero.

Yeah, the lie here, I mean, I love the kind of what's the lie in all these.

Yeah, the lie here is that in order to prove my value, I have to go above and beyond constantly.

The individual cost is kind of self-evident, maybe.

We've talked a lot about burnout in the show.

And at the group level, I think when this becomes normalized...

Obviously, those costs, the cost of burnout and risks of all this stuff go up.

But there's also this phenomenon of exhausted mediocrity.

There's no strategic prioritization.

There's no sense of this task is more important than this other.

It's all like we're just going to we're just going to out effort everything.

We're going to ask all the time on all of the things.

Yeah.

Yeah, we hear that from so many leaders.

Oh, I got here by working harder.

All right, close us out with the expert.

But it's a similar lie to its cousins, which is, I have to know.

I mean, all of these are lies that are supposed to keep us safe, that ironically make us more vulnerable.