Does imagining failure first help?

Does imagining failure first help? — what studies show, and what they don't.

The research

Mitchell, Russo and Pennington (1989, JBDM) find prospective hindsight increases reasons identified.

The limit

Lab experiments. (our executive and employee training programmes)

Practical check in Basel

At kickoff, ask everyone to write why the project failed six months later. To go further: explore the Project Management training in Basel, or browse our executive and employee training programmes in Switzerland.

In pictures: Project Management in Basel

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