Mind Hack: Increase Your Ability To Foresee The Future By 30%
December 7, 2012 2 Comments
I’m not a negative person, but here’s something I’ve noticed: projects fail at an alarming rate. One reason seems to be that people are afraid to speak up during the planning phase. Unless you’ve fostered a safe environment that encourages people to raise issues, concerns may fester in silence and only become evident when its too late.
A premortem is a technique (pioneered by a psychologist named Gary Klein) for minimizing this kind of risk. Instead of being held after an event like a postmortem, the premortem is Read more of this post