Thinking & Personal Effectiveness · Decision Making
A topic within Decision Making, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Thinking & Personal Effectiveness.
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Gary Klein
Proposes that before a plan launches, the team should imagine it has already failed and write down why, because prospective hindsight surfaces risks that asking what could go wrong directly does not.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Deborah J. Mitchell, J. Edward Russo & Nancy Pennington
Shows that explaining an outcome as though it has already happened generates more reasons for a decision's possible failure than does simply asking how it might fail, which is the mechanism behind the premortem.