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Podcast: My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
Episode: Ray Zinn: Why Repeating the Same Mistake Is the Real Failure in Leadership
Description: Ray Zinn—longtime CEO of Micrel Semiconductor and the longest-serving CEO of a publicly traded company in Silicon Valley history—doesn’t believe the real problem is making mistakes.
He believes the real failure is repeating the same mistake without fixing it.
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In this episode of My Favorite Mistake, Ray shares leadership lessons from nearly four decades running Micrel, including why popular slogans like “fail fast, fail often” can actually normalize bad habits, how leaders unintentionally punish learning, and what it takes to build a culture focused on...