Dan Martell - August 22, 2023


How I deal with mistakes


Episode Stats


Length

28 seconds

Words per minute

282.15768

Word count

136

Sentence count

20


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about a mistake my direct reports made and how I dealt with it. I also talk about the process of fixing the problem and how to prevent it from happening in the future. I hope you enjoy this episode and learn from it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I had one of my direct reports call me out. $142,000 mistake today. He was beating himself
00:00:04.520 up. I'm so sorry. I go, dude, look, do you know where the process broke to fix the process to
00:00:09.020 make sure we don't have that happen again? He goes, absolutely. I said, cool. This is a learn
00:00:12.520 once. I hired that person. Either I didn't train them right. I didn't show up as a leader for them.
00:00:16.780 I haven't been coaching them. I haven't been communicating clearly. That's my fault. I told
00:00:20.200 the guy today, I was like, I never worked through that with you. I could have saw that. I could have
00:00:24.160 talked to you about it beforehand and I didn't. My bad. It's not your fault. I go, it is. You
00:00:27.920 You report to me.