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 cultivating, a culture of learning and Innovation to learn more. Go to mistakes, book.com