Tag: Mistakes

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"It is in Toyota's DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated." -- Akio Toyoda, Chairman, Toyota Motor Corporation I love that quote from Mr....

This Snickers commercial always makes me chuckle, and I saw it again last night during an NFL playoff game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztKufG63o00&ab_channel=SNICKERS The punchline is that this stadium...

This post is built around excerpts from the book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. Read more about Toyota,...

The book giveaway contest that I'm running ends Friday at about 3 pm ET. ENTER TO WIN a set of all six books that I've...

I was recently interviewed by Megan Wallin-Kirth for an article she wrote for Quality Digest. I thought she was interviewing me for a broader...

At the hospital on Monday, a chaplain shared a Thanksgiving poem on the theme of being grateful. It struck a chord with me. As a Lean practitioner, it's easy to focus on the waste... the problems... the gaps. We think about what could be and the "ideal state." We strive for perfection and it's easy to lose site of what we have.

I don't share every episode of the "My Favorite Mistake" podcast here, but today's new episode has great connections to Lean, I think. Or,...

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #489 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Ward Vuillemot, a seasoned...

tl;dr summary: In this exploration into the complexities of failure and learning, I draw from a range of entrepreneurs to debunk myths and advocate...

Using mistakes to learn and improve requires that we hear about them. But leaders can't just tell people to speak up. Telling them, "It's...

In this week's episode of "My Favorite Mistake," we're lucky to have Ken Snyder, a celebrated figure in the realm of business and academia...