The Pre-Mortem

The pre-mortem is a technique designed by psychologist Gary Klein. In it, we look to envision what could go wrong in an ambitious undertaking. The Stoics had an even better name: Pre-Meditatio Malorum which means premeditation of evils. If only more people had been thinking worst-case scenario at critical points in our lifetimes the tech bubble and 9-11 might have been avoidable.