My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
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What a Magician Learned About Recovering From Mistakes with Michael Chaleff
Aug 24, 202643 min
Why the Cheapest Supplier Is Rarely the Cheapest, with Carl Pradelli, CEO of Nature City
Aug 17, 202642 min
Nurse Tiffany Auvil on Caregiving, Denials, and a Misdiagnosis
Aug 10, 202639 min
Why ESPN's Founder Was Pushed Out of the Network He Built, with Historian Mike Soltys
Aug 3, 202640 min
Why Fighter Pilots Never Use the Word "Mistake" -- with Boo Boucousis
Jul 27, 202648 min
Succession Planning Is a Journey, Not an Event -- with Andrea Carpenter and Elizabeth Ledoux
Jul 20, 202641 min
A Touch of the Madness: Big Bets, Mistakes, and Trusting Your Gut -- with Larry Kasanoff
Jul 13, 202643 min
The Amazon Mistake That Erased Her Income Overnight - with Wiebke Tasch
Jul 6, 202643 min
Mike Grossman on the Lawyer Mistake That Nearly Killed a Deal
Jun 8, 202642 min
Why Speaking Up Backfired Early in Her Career -- with Kate Lowry
Jun 1, 202643 min
A 40-Page Business Plan Is Not a Strategy -- Eric Ries on His First Startup, Incorruptible, and What "Best Practices" Get Wrong
May 26, 202648 min
Getting Too Close to What You Love: Joe Hennes (Tough Pigs) on Working at Sesame Workshop
May 18, 202649 min
Stop Chasing Results, Start Pursuing Peace of Mind - with Deborah Coviello
May 11, 202640 min
Going Gun-Shy as a New Leader: Jesse Jackson on "We Tried That, It Didn't Work"
May 4, 202649 min
Processing Failure Without the Funk -- Dr. Melisa Buie
Apr 27, 202644 min
Why Chasing Growth Over Profit Cost This Founder $800K -- with Joel Steele
Apr 20, 202639 min
Why Walking Away from Tech Was the Wrong Move -- with Irna Hutabarat Athans
Apr 13, 202643 min
What Bruce Springsteen's Set List Teaches Leaders About Communication -- with Andy Freed
Apr 6, 202640 min
Why Hope Outperforms Resilience -- with Dr. Julia Garcia
Mar 30, 202644 min
Why "Have a Sense of Humor" Was the Wrong Company Value -- with Mike Chaput
Mar 23, 202646 min
Why Being Great at Your Job Isn't Enough to Get Promoted with Kendall Berg
Mar 16, 202645 min
The Mistake of Going It Alone -- with Patrick Engasser
Mar 9, 202642 min
Why Conflict Avoidance Costs More Than Conflict -- with Dr. Jen Fry
Mar 2, 202641 min
Robot Umpires Are Here: ABS and the Mistakes It May Create | Mistake of the Week
Feb 26, 20265 min
Public Health Shouldn’t Be Political — A Career “Mistake” That Changed Everything | Dr. Tyler Evans
Feb 23, 202655 min
When a Water Leak Turns a Street Into Ice: Mistake of the Week
Feb 19, 20264 min
Confusing Performance with Alignment — A Leadership Mistake That Causes Burnout, with Genevieve Skory
Feb 16, 202640 min
Olympic Medals That Couldn’t Handle the Celebration | Mistake of the Week
Feb 11, 20263 min
I Made a Marine Cry: Leadership, Authority, and Learning from Mistakes | Olaolu Ogunyemi
Feb 9, 202643 min
When Diesel Ends Up Where It Shouldn’t — Mistake of the Week:
Feb 5, 20265 min
Ray Zinn: Why Repeating the Same Mistake Is the Real Failure in Leadership
Feb 2, 202646 min
Undercharging for Consulting: Amy Rasdal on Fear, Pricing, and Knowing Your Worth
Jan 25, 202638 min
Releasing the Wrong Body Is Not Just “Human Error” - Mistake of the Week
Jan 22, 20265 min
How Buying an Oil Tanker Became My Favorite Mistake — Kevin Hipes
Jan 19, 202644 min
“But I Wore the Juice”: The True Story That Inspired the Dunning–Kruger Effect | Mistake of the Week
Jan 15, 20266 min
Choosing Engineering When I Was Wired for People (Angie Callen)
Jan 12, 202639 min
The HR Tool That Accidentally Fired Everyone - Mistake of the Week
Jan 8, 20263 min
Startup Mistakes That Linger: Jason Sherman on Co-Founders, Smart Money, and MVP Learning
Jan 5, 202646 min
Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail: Willpower vs. System Design
Jan 1, 20265 min
Nick Saban’s “Dumbest” Call—and Why His Players Loved It
Dec 27, 20253 min
How a Mistake Turned Jingle Bells into a Christmas Song
Dec 18, 20254 min
From Medicare Fraud to Military Leadership: Learning Accountability After a Career-Defining Mistake (Dr. Josh McConkey)
Dec 15, 202542 min
How a Lab Error Led to an Unnecessary Surgery
Dec 11, 20254 min
Recovering from Workplace Bullying—and What Leaders Often Miss (Andy Regal)
Dec 8, 202557 min
How a Landing Gear Error Was Caught Before Disaster
Dec 4, 20254 min
Why Curiosity Drives Better Leadership (Debra Clary)
Dec 1, 202540 min
From Toxic Culture to Empathic Leadership: Lessons in Empathy and Accountability (Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller)
Nov 24, 202541 min
Why Unlearning Old Habits Is Harder Than Learning New Ones
Nov 20, 20254 min
How 531 Living Patients Were Mistakenly Declared Dead
Nov 13, 20256 min
Looking Back: Katie Anderson & Isao Yoshino on Learning, Leadership, and Mistakes
Oct 27, 202539 min