My Favorite Mistake: Navigating Business and Career Pitfalls for Leadership Growth and Innovation
Mark Graban
4.9from 47 ratings
- 419
- Episodes
- 67
- Transcribed
- 47
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 1M
- YouTube views
About My Favorite Mistake: Navigating Business and Career Pitfalls for Leadership Growth and Innovation
My Favorite Mistake is a podcast about learning without blame in business and leadership. Despite the name, 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. Hosted by author and consultant Mark Graban, each episode features honest conversations with leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and changemakers about a meaningful mistake they made—and what they learned after things went wrong. How they responded. How they improved. How they grew as leaders. This isn’t a show about failure theater, gotcha moments, or simplistic “lessons learned.” It’s about how real people reflect, improve, and lead better in complex organizations—without scapegoating, shame, or hindsight bias. What You’ll Hear • Leadership and management mistakes that reshaped careers, teams, and organizations • How teams and leaders learn without blaming individuals • Insights about culture, systems, decision-making, and psychological safety • Practical lessons drawn from real experience, not abstract theory Guests come from business, healthcare, technology, sports, entertainment, government, and academia, sharing stories that reveal how learning actually happens. The Perspective Mark brings a systems-thinking lens grounded in Lean management, continuous improvement, and psychological safety. The focus is less on who messed up and more on what the system taught us. Who This Podcast Is For • Leaders and managers who want to learn from mistakes without blame • Executives working to build healthier, more resilient cultures • Professionals who believe improvement starts with reflection, not punishment My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
- Publisher
- Mark Graban
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Aug 2020
- Latest episode
- 26 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
67 of 419 episodes have a transcript.
26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Leaders Who Demand Accountability Are Often the Problem -- with Linda Galindo
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Tony Robbins Call He Rescheduled -- with Tyler McBroom
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Fix Your Process, Not Your People: The Deal He Lost by Adding Value -- Grant Harris
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Why Leaders Who Demand Accountability Are Often the Problem -- with Linda Galindo
Published 26 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] No, it's not going to work. I love your definition of accountability because in, let's say, the hospital scenario of a leader who says, we're going to hold them accountable. It sounds like by your definition, that leader is not being accountable. They are deflecting and blaming people. It's like accountability for thee, but not for me. And that happens in other industries. You mentioned a bank. You know, I think of, you know, the Wells Fargo scandal some years ago where across the country, I would argue this is a very systemic problem that bankers and bank branch managers were a very widespread way setting up accounts that were unauthorized for customers. […]
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- Linda Galindo
- Tyler McBroom
- Grant Harris
- Dr Jen Moran
- Eric Dingler
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 1,244,382
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 42 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 88 / 100
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- Quality
- 87
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 90
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