These mistakes were in the initial Kindle release and the first printed copies. The Kindle version has these errors corrected and that will happen soon on the print books (as of July 12, 2023).
I’ve written more about this on my blog.
Mistakes Found Through July 12
Page 32: “The typical Texas summer heat means Garrison Brothers lose more of the evaporated “angel’s share”… — Should read “Garrison Brothers loses more” since the name of the company is Garrison Brothers.
Page 37: “Jim owned–and avoided repeating this mistake” — Should be punctuated as Jim owned–and avoided repeating–this mistake.”
Page 39: “Press-box vantage views” should be “Press-box views”
Page 65: “but it disappeared” should be “but she disappeared” since this refers to a meeting attendee, not the document being shared
Page 78: Change the question “If not, how do we detect this, learn, and adjust?” to a statement, “If not, we need to detect this, learn, and adjust.”
Page 83: Add PhD after Amy Edmondson’s name
Page 86: “as Dr. Mayer recalled” should refer to him as “David” as the rest of the story did
Page 97: “too fearful to forward ideas” should read “too fearful to bring forward…”
Page 97: “Punishing mistakes drives people underground” should refer to driving mistakes underground
Page 101: “lower malpractice rates” should read “lower malpractice insurance rates”
Page 104: “mixed them and feed the paint sprayers” should read “mixed them and fed…”
Page 119: Change the reference to “Alan” to “Mulally” for consistency”
Page 121: “Toyota makes mistakes like any other companies” should read “… like other companies” Note: This was a typo in the original text I cited
Page 133: “reduce the mistake of large mistakes” should read “reduce the number of small mistakes”
Page 137: “an hypothesis” (British way of writing it) should be “a hypothesis”
Page 154: Change “in the 2023 edition of Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2023 North American Edition” to “in Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2023 North American Edition”
Page 157: Change “Michael Hoseus” to “Mike…” for consistency
Page 175: “described later in the chapter” should refer to “earlier”
Page 176: “will driving” should read “will drive”
Page 179: “remind yourself that that’s okay” should read “remind yourself that’s okay”
A sharp-eyed reader caught a small factual error on page 98, where I wrote, “Edmondson conducted research with Google.” This mistake is a little embarrassing since Edmonson told me, in my own podcast that I cited, that she did not lead that research effort. The text will now read, “Edmondson says research conducted at Google…”