Mark Graban's My Favorite Mistake — Eric on the dorm-room 'category error' that became The Lean Startup

Mark Graban — Lean Hospitals author and long-running continuous-improvement podcaster — runs a launch-day episode of My Favorite Mistake, with Eric tracing the dorm-room startup failure that exposed the gap between writing a business plan and having a strategy. The conversation ends with Eric's Novo Nordisk industrial-foundation challenge: are best-practice consultants really smarter than a Nobel laureate?

“Why are we building these extractive, weak-ass companies that are like addicted to quick, short-term growth, cutting costs, disregarding quality, and human lives? Like, why when we have a template for how to do it better?” — Eric Ries on My Favorite Mistake with Mark Graban