I Mark Raven, here, my upcoming book, the mistakes that make us
in the book, I share insights and strategies for cultivating,
a culture of learning Improvement and Innovation a
place where mistakes are embraced as opportunities for
growth and punishment is recognized as counterproductive
to learn more about the mistakes that make us visit mistakes
book.com. Hi, it's Mark Raymond here.
Welcome to episode 331 of lean blog audio.
This is a post that I published on.
May 1st 2023 titled. Why keep asking, what's your
favorite mistake? So, I found some material on if
you will The Cutting Room floor for my upcoming book, the
mistakes that make us cultivating, a culture of
learning and Innovation and of supplemented that with some new
material, kind of flush it out into a blog post here, which you
can find at lean blog dot org slash audio. 31.
If you weren't able to attend the event, I did on my second
alive, book cover reveal event. You can find a link to that
recording is now available. You can see what the cover to my
book. Looks like it was a fun, 30
minutes with Elizabeth Swann as the host and helping me talk
through this again, lean blog dot org, slash audio 331.
So I've asked more than 215 people.
The same question releasing two hundred and eight episodes to 8,
here's the question. What's your favorite mistake
now? You might wonder why I seem to
be so obsessed with this question.
It's not because I love embarrassing people or because I
want to gloat about the mistakes of others.
I asked this question to learn and improve myself as a person
and leader. The upcoming book and the
podcast series are meant to be reminders that we shouldn't mock
people for their mistakes. We shouldn't be too hard on
ourselves, even if that's easier said than done as the stories in
the book illustrate everybody makes mistakes.
Starting with me. The key is learning from these
mistakes in a way that drives us forward.
Positively we might not love that we made a mistake but we
would hate repeating it or failing to learn and grow.
Some people in companies learn that making, small mistakes
prevents us from making larger mistakes, which I also wanted to
explore. I explored learning from
mistakes in the 2017 and theology book, that I edited and
published called practicing Lane, after writing the first
two chapters, I recruited 15, friends, and colleagues from my
field to follow my lead and sharing stories about mistakes.
We made in the first few years of our if you will practice of
lean Management in various Industries, It was my first
self-publishing experiment and and that wasn't a mistake.
Although it is a mistake to think quote-unquote
self-publishing means doing it yourself and that's something.
I will explore in a future blog post realizing that some people
would be willing to share their past mistakes, their favorites,
even and Lessons Learned in a book chapter practicing Lane.
They gave me more confidence, about finding interesting
podcasts, guest willing to talk about the same thing.
The lean methodology encourages us to be humble.
Humble leaders, which includes realizing that we're not always
going to be perfectly correct lien teaches us, that we can
always improve in the best way to improve is through hypotheses
and experiments, we have to be willing to highlight problems in
admit mistakes. Which means L must make it safe
for others to do. So the stories from former
Toyota people, which you'll read in this book, clearly
illustrate, these mindsets and principles.
It took me over 25 years of practicing lean, which means
learning, and doing to Is that one of the keys to Toyota
success is a culture of learning from mistakes in interviewing
leaders. From other companies helped me
realize that a similar culture built on similar leadership
mindsets and behaviors. Bring similar levels of success,
you'll perform better relative to your competitors who don't
have the same culture of learning from mistakes.
The book practicing lean was meant to remind ourselves
starting with me. Especially me to remember that.
We all tend to make mistakes when learning and practicing
something new. I borrowed the phrase from the
idea that Physicians are practicing medicine and
attorneys are practicing law. Completing a degree or a
training class belt or otherwise doesn't mean that our learning
has ended. It's only just begun, deliberate
practice, including learning from mistakes, helps us learn
grow and succeed. The book practicing lean also
reminded us not to be too hard on others who are many years
behind our own learning curves. If we can encourage people to be
open about their mistakes and learn from them, they might
surpass. Our skill and experience levels
before long I believe in and I try to lead, by example, as do
the guests on my favorite mistake admitting and sharing my
mistakes and meetings blog posts book chapters or podcast
episodes. Hopefully creates some space and
psychological safety for others to do the same.
Or that's, that's my intent. That's my hope.
We all make mistakes. I think the best of us managed
to learn from our mistakes in a way, that turns out to be
positive for our careers and for our lives.
That's the spirit of Of my favorite mistake podcast and the
book, the mistakes that make us not asking what's wrong with
you. Why did you make that mistake?
But instead of asking what did you learn and how do you help
others learn and grow. So for the blog post go to lean
blog dot org, slash audio 3314 the my favorite mistake podcast.
Look, whatever app or service. You are using to listen to this
podcast lean blog audio, or you can go to mistakes, podcast.com.
For the book. Again, the mistakes that make us
cultivating, a culture of learning and Innovation to learn
more. Go to mistakes, book.com For the
book. Again, the mistakes that make us
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more. Go to mistakes, book.com