Tag: Mistakes
When Life Tests You: My Attempt to Donate a Couch Was...
tl;dr: In this post, Mark recounts his frustrating experience attempting to donate a couch, only to be stymied by bureaucratic obstacles. Using this personal...
Story: When Firing an Employee Doesn’t Prevent the Repeat of the...
This post shares a story I heard at the Michigan Lean Consortium annual conference earlier this week. They've been kind about sharing ideas and...
Mistake: Traverse City Airport Thinks My New Book’s Website is, Um,...
tl;dr: In this post, Mark shares an incident where his new book's website was flagged as "inappropriate" by Traverse City Airport's Wi-Fi filter. He...
Recorded Panel Discussion: Cultivating a Culture of Learning from Mistakes at...
I hosted and participated in a live online panel discussion on Thursday as part of the KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Webinar series.
The recording can be...
A Roundup of Recent Blog Posts and Podcasts About Mistakes: July...
Recently, l've been writing some blog posts on my new book's website -- mistakesbook.com/blog.
I'm still blogging here, but you might find some of these...
The Mistakes That Made “The Mistakes That Make Us” – First...
Bottom Line Up Front:
I wrote a book about mistakes. That book was published... with some mistakes.
Since it's a book about learning from mistakes,...
Paul Critchley Interviews Mark Graban About “The Mistakes That Make Us”
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For Episode #480 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast turns the tables, as regular host Mark...
The Ironic Saga of the Broken “My Favorite Mistake” Coffee Mugs
Here's a story I've meant to write up for almost two years... some events that happened during pandemic times when I wasn't writing as...
A Workplace Culture Where “FAIL” Means First Attempt in Learning
Below is some material that I wrote, but didn't use, in my book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and...
Special Launch Price: $2.99 for the Kindle Version of “The Mistakes...
I'm happy to announce some special pre-order pricing! Just $2.99! The regular price will be $9.99.
My new book is The Mistakes That Make Us:...
What Are Mistakes? Why Do We Make Them?
The following is an excerpt from the book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. And this post also...
A Near Miss with Amazon’s Publishing Platform – Save Draft or...
My new book, The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation, is still only in a draft state before final...