"Failing upwards" - I thought it was like the tooth fairy, santa or the boogey man that they tell kids to scare them. Then I went to work on a high performing

"Failing upwards" - I thought it was like the tooth fairy, santa or the boogey man that they tell kids to scare them. Then I went to work on a high performing team in a high performing organisation and discovered that even in that environment there were people promoted to get them away from stuff they were a) terrible at and b) had made a total mess of.