How do you prevent failure? How do you prevent the projects, the initiatives, the proposals, or the objectives of the team from failing? An exercise called a pre-mortem allows you to prevent that failure by actively thinking about how that failure might happen.
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Danny Kenny, Ph.D., is a Senior Learning Designer at McChrystal Group Academy, where he leverages the latest insights from organizational, social, and behavioral research to design, develop, and implement leadership solutions for our clients.
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