“Today. From a Tomorrow Perspective.” Part 5 of 5.

Last one. I promise.

For now.

To close out this quarter —

EXCERPT: In business, the concept of the premortem was coined by cognitive psychologist Gary Klein, and the late Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman called it “a brilliant idea.” The goal is to identify all the potential sources of failure on a project to improve the chances of success—to imagine how and why things might go wrong instead of explaining after they have gone wrong. “So that the project can be improved,” as Klein once put it, “rather than autopsied.” 

In other words, you subject yourself to the exercise of writing a premortem to make sure you won’t have to write a postmortem. 

Shaich’s twist on the premortem is about making sure that he’s getting things right. 

SOURCE: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/new-years-resolutions-ron-shaich-cava-panera-c0fb7922?st=rD8eAD&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

— And to quote Joey from that now-decades-old tv show, “How you doin’?”