Pre-mortems

If your project or campaign doesn’t come off as well as you’d hoped, you’ll probably do some kind of post-mortem to assess what went wrong.

Why not try a pre-mortem next time?

Before you get deep into the project, look ahead. Imagine it all goes wrong. Consider what might make that happen.

Then decide how you’ll prevent those things from happening.

Here’s the thing:

You can't see all of the future. But you've been around enough to make some good guesses about a lot of it.

A little structured “time travel of the mind” is a decent way to make use of all that hard-earned insight.

All the best,
A.