Thanks, Tim

I'd like to welcome everyone here who stopped by based on Tim Berry's blog post today. Tim has been a supporter of the Mistake Bank work from the very beginning; in fact, there is a trove of stories from Tim, both from his blog and from an interview we did last year, that will be making their way over to this site over the next few weeks. Stay tuned. (If you can't wait that long, you can listen to the entire Mistake Bank interview here.)

Also, it was a recent post of Tim's ("5 Vital Truths About Business Mistakes") that gave me the kick I needed to get my collection of various and sundry mistake-related materials organized and presented in this forum. To quote Tim's post:

What worries me most about how much we all make mistakes is the whole mystique about excellence that leads to denial and distortions. I think of the song by Shaggy, ‘It Wasn’t Me.’ Reflect on your own work: do you make mistakes? If you don’t answer that with an immediate ‘Yes,’ then you’re in danger of being one of those delusional managers who blames others.

Accept that you make mistakes; reflect on them; learn from them; don't beat yourself up about them. That's our motto here. Hope to see you around more. (Use the subscribe link at the right to make sure you never miss a story!)