Tag: Mistakes
Delta’s $70,000 Slide Mistake Shows Why “Human Error” Is Really a...
A Delta Air Lines flight attendant accidentally deployed an emergency slide, causing $70,000 in damage and delaying passengers for hours. It sounds like a...
How Great Leaders Prevent Mistakes and Learn from the Ones That...
I recently gave a virtual keynote for a global manufacturing company that's a customer of KaiNexus. Their leaders wanted to explore how to strengthen...
From Know-It-All to Learn-It-All: Leadership Lessons from Mistakes
Lessons from my book The Mistakes That Make Us, plus conversations with Phillip Cantrell and Damon Lembi
One of the central themes in my book, The...
Fred Noe of Jim Beam: Leadership Lessons on Mistakes, Innovation, and...
Over the years, I've had the opportunity to meet and listen to many leaders across industries--healthcare, manufacturing, tech, and more. But two of the...
Don’t Repeat Our Mistakes: Dale Lucht’s Leadership Habits for Lean
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My guest for Episode #534 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Dale Lucht, co-author of...
Another Truck Got “Storrowed” — Why Warnings Aren’t Enough, and What...
For years, trucks have been crashing into low-clearance bridges along Boston's Storrow Drive, to the point where locals have coined the term "Storrowed." Even...
Five Years of My Favorite Mistake: Lean, Toyota, and the Human...
When I launched the My Favorite Mistake podcast in September 2020, I hoped to create space for leaders and innovators to share the moments...
Your Current Estimated Alarm Response Time Is… 13 Hours?
How long would you expect it to take for the police to respond to a burglar alarm at your home?
Why do I bring this...
Avoiding the Dunning-Kruger Trap in Lean: Lessons from Early Mistakes
The most dangerous moment in Lean is often right after your first belt class--when you think you've mastered it all.
You may have seen the...
How a Vineyard “Improvement” Nearly Destroyed European Wine — and What...
A Word Worth Remembering (But Hard to Say and Spell)
You might recall when I first learned about the German word "verschlimmbesserung"--that wonderfully precise term...
This Week’s Medical Mistakes from Around the World: Asking “Why?” Instead...
Each week, I keep an eye out for stories that help us learn--and teach--about the systemic nature of mistakes in healthcare. Well, actually Google...
Culture Is the Key — Reflections on Leadership, Mistakes, and Building...
I've always believed that culture isn't just one component of success--it's the foundation everything else is built upon. That belief is central to my...
