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Interesting but I disagree with #2

Dana Theus 2nd Dec

I generally agree with a lot of these approaches. But this one I don't agree with:

2. Prepare for failure in the beginning. I recommend kicking off the project with a ???pre-mortem workshop.??? Visualize all the things that could go wrong by imagining that the project has failed.

In my experience, what we visualize is much more likely to come into reality than what we don't. And by visualizing success - in addition to increasing your odds - you can accomplish the exact same goal of seeing your obstacles more clearly. Visualizing success in order to "see" the problems more clearly, however, requires that you visualize it truly - personally - even emotionally. When you can put yourself IN the situation of success and articulate what that really looks and feels like - as a group - everything out of alignment with that experience pops into immediate relief. This is a bit of an art, but it's not hard. Here's a more in depth guide for anyone interested: http://ht.ly/7MASt