My Favorite Mistake, by Mark Graban
Larry Kasanoff has produced more than 200 films, including Terminator 2, True Lies, and the Mortal Kombat franchise. So it’s fitting that one of the most useful lessons of his …
Publishing strategist Wiebke Tasch had built a bestselling book and a comfortable full-time income on Amazon — enough to quit her PR job. Then one morning an automated email told …
To save a few thousand dollars in legal fees, six-time Silicon Valley CEO Mike Grossman decided to act as his own lawyer on a routine distribution contract. Years later, when …
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 …
