{"id":1318,"date":"2021-01-29T06:28:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rulenumbersix.ca\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2021-02-07T09:30:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T17:30:36","slug":"figure-out-problems-before-problems-occur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/figure-out-problems-before-problems-occur\/","title":{"rendered":"Figure Out Problems Before Problems Occur"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1318\" class=\"elementor elementor-1318\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6deeabe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6deeabe\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-10aadde\" data-id=\"10aadde\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-21a786b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"21a786b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"\" data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Imagine you time travel to the future and discover that your endeavor turned out to be a complete fiasco.<\/p><p class=\"\">Now work backwards from there:<\/p><ul data-rte-list=\"default\"><li><p class=\"\">What led to the flop?<\/p><\/li><li><p class=\"\">What were the possible missteps along the way?<\/p><\/li><li><p class=\"\">What were the tripping hazards?<\/p><\/li><li><p class=\"\">What were the warning signs that things were going sideways?\u00a0<\/p><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"\">Now time travel back to the present: your prospective hindsight is now foresight.<\/p><p class=\"\">With what you know now, how would you mitigate potential problems?<\/p><p class=\"\">This brief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/seeing-what-others-dont\/202101\/the-pre-mortem-method\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-mortem<\/a> exercise isn\u2019t meant to discourage. Rather, it\u2019s an effective way to discover and figure out potential problems before real problems occur.\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"\">Lessons learned don\u2019t have to wait for a post-mortem when an endeavor is autopsied. They\u2019re much more useful if they come at the outset and can be applied to improve strategy and execution.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief pre-mortem at the outset of an endeavor can help you figure out potential problems before real problems occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-learning","category-problem-solving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Figure-Out-Problems-Before-Problems-Occur.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}