My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
Mark Graban
370 episodes
21 hours ago
My Favorite Mistake is a podcast about learning without blame in business and leadership.
Hosted by Mark Graban, the show features honest conversations with leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and changemakers about a meaningful mistake they made—and what they learned after things went wrong. It’s not just my favorite mistake; it’s yours, it’s ours, and it’s what we can all learn from when things don’t go as planned.
This isn’t a podcast about failure theater, gotcha moments, or simplistic “lessons learned.” It explores how real people reflect, improve, and lead better in complex organizations—without scapegoating, shame, or hindsight bias.
Drawing on systems thinking, Lean management, continuous improvement, and psychological safety, each episode focuses less on who messed up and more on what the system taught us.
My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
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My Favorite Mistake is a podcast about learning without blame in business and leadership.
Hosted by Mark Graban, the show features honest conversations with leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and changemakers about a meaningful mistake they made—and what they learned after things went wrong. It’s not just my favorite mistake; it’s yours, it’s ours, and it’s what we can all learn from when things don’t go as planned.
This isn’t a podcast about failure theater, gotcha moments, or simplistic “lessons learned.” It explores how real people reflect, improve, and lead better in complex organizations—without scapegoating, shame, or hindsight bias.
Drawing on systems thinking, Lean management, continuous improvement, and psychological safety, each episode focuses less on who messed up and more on what the system taught us.
My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
From the Wrong Business to the Right Voice: Finding Purpose Through Mistakes (Emily Aborn)
My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
42 minutes
2 months ago
From the Wrong Business to the Right Voice: Finding Purpose Through Mistakes (Emily Aborn)
Emily Aborn, a small business copywriter and host of the Small Business Casual podcast, shares how owning a “perfect-on-paper” organic mattress store became her favorite mistake. The profitable business left her unfulfilled, and closing it opened the door to her true strengths—writing, connection, and helping entrepreneurs find their authentic voice. Emily and Mark explore lessons in alignment, self-awareness, marketing, and how mistakes can reveal the work we’re meant to do.
My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
My Favorite Mistake is a podcast about learning without blame in business and leadership.
Hosted by Mark Graban, the show features honest conversations with leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and changemakers about a meaningful mistake they made—and what they learned after things went wrong. It’s not just my favorite mistake; it’s yours, it’s ours, and it’s what we can all learn from when things don’t go as planned.
This isn’t a podcast about failure theater, gotcha moments, or simplistic “lessons learned.” It explores how real people reflect, improve, and lead better in complex organizations—without scapegoating, shame, or hindsight bias.
Drawing on systems thinking, Lean management, continuous improvement, and psychological safety, each episode focuses less on who messed up and more on what the system taught us.
My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
