Duke: Premortems reward employees for creatively finding failure modes before launch
Annie Duke · TKP Insights: Making (Even) Better Decisions · Oct 25, 2022 · at 55:20
Annie Duke discusses how premortems overcome corporate cheerleading by altering the social incentives around dissent.
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“When you do a premortem, now you've changed what it means to be a team player, right? Like the people who are going to get pats on the back are the ones who come up with the most creative reasons for failure. And that's going to allow you to now anticipate sort of where things might go wrong. It's going to allow you to wrap that into the scenarios that you think might occur. It's going to allow you to adjust the probabilities of success or failure.”
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