My Favorite Mistake, by Mark Graban
Kate Lowry was fresh out of college and working at McKinsey when she saw a colleague do something she believed was seriously wrong — something that could constitute blackmail, with …
Eric Ries had a 40-page business plan. An Excel model so complicated it would crash Excel. A team of elite students, real investors, and a working product. What he didn’t …
Joe Hennes runs Tough Pigs, the premier Muppet fan site, and for years he also worked at Sesame Workshop — the dream company he had been writing about since 2006. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 — …
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, …
Dr. Julia Garcia — psychologist, author, and host of The Journey with Dr. J — built two businesses that didn’t survive. Episode page with links, video, and more The first …
