Friday night, in St. Louis, New York Mets’ first baseman Pete Alonso made a mistake that angered the home team St. Louis Cardinals and their fans, as discussed in this video: The announcers were probably right in assuming that Alonso made an honest mistake – human error. There’s habit and… Read More "Pete Alonso Accidentally Throws Masyn Winn’s First Career Hit Ball into the Crowd: An MLB Mistake"
This blog is a collection of stories, quotes, articles, and more about mistakes. Some of it is “director’s cut” material that didn’t make it into my book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. I also blog regularly at LeanBlog.org.
How Interior Designers Can Effectively Handle and Learn From Mistakes
How should any business owner or leader react? This article caught my eye recently: How 6 designers handle employee mistakes Hopefully there are no stories about yelling, screaming, and firings! The first designer, Victoria McKenney, could have been reading straight from my book! 🙂 “I truly believe that every mistake… Read More "How Interior Designers Can Effectively Handle and Learn From Mistakes"
The Financial Mistake That Could Doom the PAC-12 Conference
There’s chaos in college sports as universities switch conferences left and right (and east and west). George Kliavkoff’s biggest mistake as Pac-12 commissioner is beyond dispute What happened? ESPN offered the conference $30 million per school each year, and that’s even with UCLA and USC bolting for the Big Ten… Read More "The Financial Mistake That Could Doom the PAC-12 Conference"
Even Rocket Scientists Make Mistakes: The Human Element in Space Exploration
In the news: “NASA restores contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft after mistake led to weeks of silence” From the article: “Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space billions of miles away, Voyager 2 stopped communicating two weeks ago. Controllers sent the wrong command to the 46-year-old spacecraft and tilted its antenna… Read More "Even Rocket Scientists Make Mistakes: The Human Element in Space Exploration"
See Mistakes as a Stepping Stone to Success
This material was used in an earlier draft, but not included in my book, The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. Expecting mistakes doesn’t mean that mistakes are great in and of themselves. Mistakes are a fact of life; they are going to happen. You… Read More "See Mistakes as a Stepping Stone to Success"
Have a Backup Plan for When Mistakes Inevitably Occur
This post is material cut from earlier drafts of my book, The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. Karin Reed is the author of multiple books and is the CEO of a training firm called Speaker Dynamics. She was previously an Emmy-award-winning broadcast journalist. But mistakes… Read More "Have a Backup Plan for When Mistakes Inevitably Occur"