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Podcast: My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
Episode: Robot Umpires Are Here: ABS and the Mistakes It May Create | Mistake of the Week
Description:
Baseball has always made room for human error. Umpires miss calls. Fans complain. Life goes on.
But this season, MLB is rolling out the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system -- ABS -- giving teams two challenges per game to contest ball-and-strike calls.
The idea is to reduce bad calls. The likely side effect is a whole new category of mistakes.
In this "Mistake of the Week," Mark Graban looks at what happens when correcting human error depends on another human decision -- and what one anonymous...