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Send us Fan Mail English lesson application (with Jale): https://forms.gle/RGS9xwfLHXRRnmaQ9 To check the transcript: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2379282 Premortem We usually study failure after it happens. A plan falls apart, a deadline is missed, a project does not work—and only then do we ask: “What went wrong?” But there is an interesting decision-making technique that asks us to move that question much earlier. It is called a premortem, an idea popularized by psychologist Gary Klein. A po...
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