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Author: Mark Graban

Lean Coffee Talk (Formerly Lean Whiskey)

Lean Coffee Talk — S2: E 8: NUMMI: GM Wrote It Down in 1987. They Still Didn’t Get It.

Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh sit down with single-origin coffees and a 1987 GM Confidential report Mark pulled from the Don Ephlin papers at Wayne State’s Reuther Library. The document, …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 351: Stop Chasing Results, Start Pursuing Peace of Mind – with Deborah Coviello

Deborah Coviello has spent her career walking into businesses with quality crises and operational pressure, and walking out with stronger leaders behind her. In this conversation with Mark Graban, she …

Lean Blog Audio

Lean Blog Audio — Still Learning: A Live Event with Elisabeth Swan on May 7

Blog post with links Three years ago, The Mistakes That Make Us came out. Around the same time, Elisabeth Swan published Picture Yourself a Leader. Both books' third birthdays felt like a decent …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 350: Going Gun-Shy as a New Leader: Jesse Jackson on “We Tried That, It Didn’t Work”

Jesse Jackson, contact center leader and host of Set Lusting Bruce, joins Mark Graban to share his favorite mistake: going gun-shy as a new leader when veterans push back with …

Lean Blog Interviews

Lean Blog — 543: Why Most People Aren’t Really Thinking — Scott Burgmeyer on Cognitive Biases and Leadership

Most people think they’re thinking. Scott Burgmeyer says they’re mostly just reacting. Scott is the founder and CEO of Become More Group and coauthor of Think: The Road Less Traveled. …

Habitual Excellence

Habitual Excellence — Leading Academic Health Centers for Excellence in 2026

In this episode of the Habitual Excellence Podcast, Ken Segel speaks with Ben Schwartz, MD, a physician leader at Banner Health, about what it takes to lead large academic health …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 349: Processing Failure Without the Funk — Dr. Melisa Buie

Dr. Melisa Buie is an operational excellence leader and co-author of Faceplant: FREE Yourself from Failure’s Funk. She has a PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan, taught …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 348: Why Chasing Growth Over Profit Cost This Founder $800K — with Joel Steele

At 24 years old, Joel Steele was buried in what would be roughly $800,000 of debt in today’s dollars – the wreckage of a healthy fast food restaurant chain he …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 347: Why Walking Away from Tech Was the Wrong Move — with Irna Hutabarat Athans

Irna Hutabarat Athans had an MBA from MIT, connections to VCs, and a front-row seat to the startup world. But technology felt soulless to her, so she walked away — …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 346: What Bruce Springsteen’s Set List Teaches Leaders About Communication — with Andy Freed

Andy Freed has seen Bruce Springsteen perform 95 times. Somewhere along the way, he stopped just enjoying the shows and started studying them — how Springsteen prepares a set list, …

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