Tag: Mistakes
Learning from Scheduling and Podcasting Mistakes — Owning and Improving My...
We all make mistakes! But learning from them is what matters.
It's easier to learn and improve when we can view mistakes as being caused...
The Third Time (Almost the Fourth) Was the Charm at Starbucks...
When I was at KaiNexicon last week, our hotel in Austin had a Starbucks in the lobby. I'm a pretty regular drinker of the...
The Mystery of the Mistakenly Aligned Throat Coat Tea Bags, Solved!
I'm more of a coffee drinker than a tea drinker. But unlike Ted Lasso, I don't dismissively think it's going to taste like "hot...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 5th, 2023
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get...
Why Keep Asking, “What’s Your Favorite Mistake?”
The following material was found on the "cutting room floor" for my upcoming book, The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning...
The Mistake I Made With the Webinar Slide — A QR...
And this is why we test things... to discover issues that we didn't anticipate in advance.
I thought I was being clever by putting a QR code in the upper right-hand corner of the slide earlier.
But I didn't realize, until doing the LinkedIn Live test this morning, that the Zoom Webinar video window covered part of the QR code, as you can see below.
Advice About Dealing with the Mistaken Confetti Drop at an NBA...
This was in the news the other day, and it's fun to talk about mistakes that don't harm or kill anybody:
Confetti delays Celtics-Hawks Game...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 24th, 2023
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get...
From Fear to Improvement: Results of Our Poll on Companies’ Responses...
I published a poll on LinkedIn, and I'd love to have you vote or participate. Voting is now closed, but you can still discuss...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 10th, 2023
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get...
Celebrating 200 Episodes of the “My Favorite Mistake” Podcast and My...
After starting the "My Favorite Mistake" podcast in September 2020 (an episode with Kevin Harrington from "Shark Tank"), I've now reached 200 episodes!
Celebrating 200...
Learning from Mistakes: An Operating Room Case Study on the Consequences...
This article caught my eye today, and it's a change of pace to think about and write about mistakes other than my own (and...