Frances Fry

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658 appearances 6 recordings 2 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 24 May

Frances Fry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I think so.
And it's unnatural for me, as you know.
I think it, I say it, is usually how I operate.
But for our listeners, I'm trying to moderate a little bit.
And I'm your co-host, Frances Fry.
I'm a Harvard Business School professor, and I'm Anne's wife.
Well, from my math mind, we are nowhere near the frontier, so I'm optimistic.
Thank you.
It almost feels criminal that we're exhausted and we don't even get excellence for it.
We're exhausted and mediocre.
If I was going to be mediocre, I'd like to be well-rested.
I feel like this is going to be a
Because we care so much is one part of the answer.
What Leslie's language would be, because we are always on.
And so she did just a breathtaking study, which compared teams that everyone was always on.
It was in professional services where you really are like your client needs you to be always on.
And she had teams that were always on, individuals were always on, and then teams that were collectively always on, but individually had scheduled a time off.
orders of magnitude better performance in the latter.
So you can, for a team, be always on, but it doesn't mean each individual.
Although what I see in practice is that if we're an always-on culture, everyone is always on.
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