My Favorite Mistake, by Mark Graban
Carl Pradelli was 18 months into building a co-branded skincare line with the Home Shopping Network when the first production run came back wrong. Ingredients specified at five percent had …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
