◊ Crystal Ball Technique

• imagine that something has gone wrong, analyze why

• specific mechanics for Pre-Mortem Technique

• described in 📖 The Power of Full Engagement:

Next, try this exercise another way. Take out another piece of paper and sit back in your chair. Think about the plan for gathering the team members together. How nice that the schedules all fit together. But now we are going to look into a crystal ball to see the future and . . . we see that the plan was a fiasco. The meeting never happened. The project lost direction and acquired a black eye. Unfortunately, the crystal ball doesn’t show why the meeting got derailed.