1. Find out The Reasons

Now, not everything in business goes according to plan. In fact, sometimes the plans go horribly awry. But you know what? That can be a source of inspiration, too. Enter the “Pre-Mortem Game”: your role in this game is to write the obituary for your company, which is going to fail with 10...

1. We play it safe and do not want to take the time and investigate the root cause of a problem.
2. Our many cognitive biases act like blind spots, making us only see immediate threats.
3. We focus on something visual and available...

There are a lot of reasons talking about our problems can be difficult:

• We may be educated to internalize feelings, rather than expressing them.
• The emotions we're dealing with (guilt or shame) can feel so overwhelming that we can’t get up the motivation to talk ab...