A landing gear error nearly ended in disaster—and exposed how small breakdowns can cascade when systems don’t catch mistakes early. Listen: Check out all episodes on the My Favorite Mistake main page. In this Mistake of the Week, Mark Graban breaks d...
Debra Clary’s favorite mistake started with missing a train stop—and led to a lifelong insight about why curiosity, not certainty, is the real engine of great leadership. Listen: Check out all episodes on the My Favorite Mistake main page. My guest f...
A conversation with empathy researcher and TEDx speaker Melissa Robinson-Winemiller about toxic systems, self-empathy, and how leaders can respond to mistakes with accountability and humanity. Listen: Check out all episodes on the My Favorite Mistake...
A small pickleball mistake reveals how assumptions, habits, and split-second decisions can quietly undermine performance—and learning. Listen: Check out all episodes on the My Favorite Mistake main page. In this edition of Mistake of the Week, Mark G...
A single mistake affected 531 patients—not because people didn’t care, but because the system made it easy to fail silently. Listen: Check out all episodes on the My Favorite Mistake main page. This episode marks the first installment of a new occasi...
Listen: Check out all episodes on the My Favorite Mistake main page. My guest for Episode #328 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Emily Aborn, a small business copywriter, speaker, and host of the Small Business Casual podcast. Emily helps entrepr...
Listen: Check out all episodes on the My Favorite Mistake main page. My guest for Episode #327 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Dr. Maya Ackerman, AI pioneer, researcher, and CEO of WaveAI. She’s also an associate professor of Computer Science a...
Listen: Check out all episodes on the My Favorite Mistake main page. My guest for Episode #326 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Dr. William Harvey, a manufacturing executive and university professor whose career is defined by developing people,...
Listen: Check out all episodes on the My Favorite Mistake main page. My guest for Episode #325 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Phillip Cantrell, EVP of Strategy at United Real Estate, founder of Benchmark Realty, and author of Failing My Way to...
Listen: Check out all episodes on the My Favorite Mistake main page. In this very special solo episode of My Favorite Mistake, Mark Graban reflects on the gloriously ridiculous — and surprisingly instructive — mistakes made by the characters in his a...