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My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 361: Nurse Tiffany Auvil on Caregiving, Denials, and a Misdiagnosis

Tiffany Auvil spent more than twenty years inside the U.S. healthcare system, starting as a volunteer firefighter and eventually serving as System Director of Outpatient Clinics for a three-hospital health …

Lean Blog Interviews

Lean Blog — Karen Martin: Five Conversations, 20 Years

Karen Martin has joined this podcast five times since 2012. For our 20th anniversary series, we pulled together highlights from all five conversations: clarity versus ambiguity, why value stream mapping …

Habitual Excellence

Habitual Excellence — Revered Clinical Leader on Leading for Today and Tomorrow in 2026

In this episode of the Habitual Excellence Podcast, Ken Segel sits down with Dr. Tracy Gosselin, Chief Nurse Executive, Senior Vice President, and Enid A. Haupt Chair in Nursing at …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 360: Why ESPN’s Founder Was Pushed Out of the Network He Built, with Historian Mike Soltys

Bill Rasmussen got fired by the Hartford Whalers, then chased an idea almost nobody believed in: sports television around the clock. He burned through his own money, his credit cards, …

Lean Coffee Talk (Formerly Lean Whiskey)

Lean Coffee Talk — S2: E 9: Humanoid Robots, Ford’s Quality Culture, and Burger King’s Quality Comeback

n Episode 9 of Lean Coffee Talk, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh begin with World Cup observations that turn into a broader discussion about process measures, results, technology, officiating, and …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 359: Why Fighter Pilots Never Use the Word “Mistake” — with Boo Boucousis

In fighter jet aviation, errors can be fatal — so the systems built around learning from them have to actually work. My guest is Christian “Boo” Boucousis, a former Royal …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 358: Succession Planning Is a Journey, Not an Event — with Andrea Carpenter and Elizabeth Ledoux

Andrea Carpenter and Elizabeth Ledoux, co-founders of The Transition Strategists, were mid-negotiation on a business succession deal — Andrea buying into Elizabeth’s business — when Andrea found out she was …

Lean Blog Audio

Lean Blog Audio — We Thought We Solved That: The Art and Judgment Calls in the PDSA Cycle

What does it really mean when a problem “comes back” after a team thought it had been solved? In this episode, Mark Graban reads his article, “We Thought We Solved …

Lean Blog Audio

Lean Blog Audio — A Bending Column, a Bad Answer, and the Real Test of a Speak-Up Culture

A construction worker named Sean Dow was working on the 22nd floor of Pfizer’s former Manhattan headquarters, a massive office building now being converted into residential apartments with additional floors …

Lean Blog Interviews

Lean Blog — 20 Years of the Lean Blog Podcast: Norman Bodek on Quick and Easy Kaizen

Twenty years ago, on July 16, 2006, the Lean Blog Podcast began with a conversation with Norman Bodek. Episode page Norman was Mark Graban’s friend and mentor—and the person who …

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