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Category: My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake, by Mark Graban

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 6: Nick Saban’s “Dumbest” Call—and Why His Players Loved It

Nick Saban calls it “the dumbest decision I ever made” — a fourth-and-one call from the 2001 SEC Championship Game that still sticks with him. In this episode, Mark Graban …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 5: How a Mistake Turned Jingle Bells into a Christmas Song

Jingle Bells is one of the most recognizable Christmas songs ever written… except it wasn’t written for Christmas at all. In this week’s Mistake of the Week, we unpack one …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 332: From Medicare Fraud to Military Leadership: Learning Accountability After a Career-Defining Mistake (Dr. Josh McConkey)

In Episode #332 of My Favorite Mistake, Mark Graban talks with Dr. Josh McConkey — emergency physician, Air Force Reserve Commander, combat-deployed medevac leader, and Pulitzer Prize–nominated author. Known as …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 4: How a Lab Error Led to an Unnecessary Surgery

A 32-year-old woman in Switzerland underwent an unnecessary surgery after her lab sample was mixed up at Basel University Hospital. Doctors believed she had cervical cancer. She didn’t — but …

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My Favorite Mistake — 331: Recovering from Workplace Bullying—and What Leaders Often Miss (Andy Regal)

My guest for Episode #331 of My Favorite Mistake is Andy Regal, a longtime media executive whose career has included leadership roles at The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, Consumer Reports, …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 3: How a Landing Gear Error Was Caught Before Disaster

In this Mistake of the Week, Mark Graban breaks down an incident involving an American Airlines A319 on final approach to Phoenix — captured on video with its landing gear …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 330: Why Curiosity Drives Better Leadership (Debra Clary)

My guest for Episode #330 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Debra Clary, a leadership strategist, researcher, and executive coach with more than four decades of experience at organizations including Frito-Lay, …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 329: From Toxic Culture to Empathic Leadership: Lessons in Empathy and Accountability (Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller)

My guest for Episode #329 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller, a TEDx speaker, empathy and leadership expert, and author of The Empathic Leader: How EQ via Empathy …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 2: Why Unlearning Old Habits Is Harder Than Learning New Ones

In this edition of Mistake of the Week, Mark Graban tells a story that didn’t appear in any safety report or headline — it happened on a pickleball court. Early …

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My Favorite Mistake — 1: How 531 Living Patients Were Mistakenly Declared Dead

In this week’s Mistake of the Week, Mark Graban tells the story of a Maine hospital system that accidentally mailed condolence letters to 531 very-much-alive patients. The cause? A computer …

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