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Podcast: My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
Episode: The Costly Expansion Mistake That Made Damon Lembi a Better CEO
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My guest for Episode #320 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Damon Lembi, CEO of Learnit, a live learning and development platform that has helped upskill over 2 million professionals.
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A former college baseball player and now a two-time bestselling author, Damon shares the story of how youthful ambition and overconfidence led him to push Learnit into a rapid, unsustainable expansion during the dot-com boom. Despite his father’s cautious advice, Damon got his way—and then faced the harsh reality of a collapsing market and near bankru...