My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
Mark Graban
370 episodes
19 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
My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
4 minutes
2 weeks ago
How a Lab Error Led to an Unnecessary Surgery
A 32-year-old woman in Switzerland underwent surgery she didn’t need after a lab mix-up mislabeled her sample. Mark Graban explores how errors like this keep happening, why being “careful” isn’t enough, and what real error-proofing looks like in healthcare. Another sobering reminder that system design — not blame — is what prevents the next mistake.
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
