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Fail Better, Solve Faster with Melisa Buie


Today's highlight is Tracy & Elisabeth's interview with Melisa Buie, co-author of the just-published Faceplant. We get the skinny on how someone with a PhD in Plasma Physics got drawn into the emotional landscape of failure, and all the great things that came out of it. For Book Buzz we’ll do a nosedive into Faceplant—hmm, might need to rethink that phrasing—but Tracy & Elisabeth give a more behind-the-scenes take on Melisa’s new book. And then for Q&A, we asked, What’s the latest example of process improvement in the wild? What have we seen?


Every problem solver faceplants eventually—it’s what you do next that counts. And regardless of next steps—be sure to include coffee.



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Link to the video version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/73dtX_um8oo

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