“My Favorite Mistake” — the new podcast from Mark Graban
I don’t always share new episodes of the “My Favorite Mistake” podcast with you here, but when I do… it’s a Lean practitioner. Today, that guest is David Meier, a former Toyota team member and leader, author of two books…
I don’t always share new episodes of the “My Favorite Mistake” podcast with you here, but when I do… it’s a Lean practitioner. Today, that guest is Bob Rush, who has roughly 30 years of Lean experience with different companies,…
TL;DR: Wrong-side surgery is a system failure, not just human error. Fear, silence, and lack of psychological safety allow mistakes to be hidden–making repeat harm more likely. I don’t post every episode of the My Favorite Mistake podcast here, but…
My latest episode of “My Favorite Mistake” is one with a heavy Lean focus, so I’m sharing it here with you today. My guest is Lee Houghton, a consultant based in the UK who has done a lot of Lean…
You might remember this Lean Blog Interviews podcast episode that I did last year with Keith Ingels from The Raymond Corporation, a Toyota Industries company: The theme of learning from mistakes came up, not surprisingly, so I also had Keith…
I don’t share every episode of “My Favorite Mistake” here (but I do hope you’ll subscribe and listen). As a reader of this blog, you might know that John Shook was the first American manager to be hired by Toyota…
I make a lot of mistakes. Maybe that’s one reason why I started a podcast called “My Favorite Mistake.” I do my best to learn from my mistakes. I’d like to avoid repeating mistakes, but I do find ways to…
I mentioned his episode the other day, but I really liked Matt May’s episode of “My Favorite Mistake.” It’s an opportunity to better get to know an author you may know… somebody I’ve interviewed on my Lean Blog Interviews podcast…
Today’s episode of “My Favorite Mistake” is another one that Lean practitioners will especially like. My guest, Sabrina Moon, talks about how she (unfortunately) learned “command and control” management in her early days at General Motors. She talks eloquently about…
Note: After doing so for the first 25 episodes, I’m going to stop cross-posting all of the episodes here to LeanBlog.org. I’ll post about the podcast if there is a guest from the Lean community. To make sure you learn…
My Favorite Mistake is a learning from mistakes podcast created for leaders who want to grow without blame. Each episode features honest conversations with business leaders reflecting on a professional mistake–and what they learned from it. The goal isn’t confession…
