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Thinking Traps 6/8: Imagine Your Plan Already Failed. Now It Might Not (The Premortem)
Thinking Traps, lesson 5 of 7: the premortem. Before a big decision, the leader says: imagine it is a year from now, we went ahead, and it was a disaster. Write down why. The psychologist Gary Klein described this simple meeting in Harvard Business Review in 2007, and Daniel Kahneman became one of its biggest fans. You'll learn why imagining a failure as already happened helps us find more reasons, why it gives quiet doubters permission to speak, the five steps to run one, and how to use it on a family trip or your own life story.
(00:49) Gary Klein
(00:00) It failed. Why?
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