My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership When Workplace Humor Goes Wrong: Pranks, Creativity, and Mistakes
Business humorist and the author of the new book Laughs On Wry: An Improviser's Memoir.
Show notes: https://ww.markgraban.com/mistake54
My guest for Episode #54 is Lisa David Olson a business humorist and the author of the new book Laughs On Wry: An Improviser's Memoir. She's an appropriate guest for today, given that it's the first day of National Humor Month.
Later this month (April 12th), my guest will be Art Bell — creator of the Comedy Central channel (which is celebrating its 30th anniversary today). I wish I had an entire month of funny guests… but there's two for you.
Lisa is a speaker, author, podcaster (“Stranger Connections“), and creative partner, who loves coffee and pranks! (the exclamation point is hers).
In today's episode, Lisa shares her “favorite mistake” of not writing her book earlier because she thought nobody would read it. I think my favorite mistake from the conversation was Lisa talking about a prank at her workplace, a police station, that I'm afraid could get her killed if she repeats it. We talk about those mistakes and topics including:
- Why are you afraid of scaring the introverts?
- Humor as her escape from a traumatic childhood
- Helping businesses (and individuals) reignite their ideas… and their projects — how?
- Humor as a connector
- The risk of making mistakes when trying to use humor at work?
- What are you doing for fun?
- Humor as a gift vs something that can be developed?