What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Pre-Mortems as a Strategic AND Motivational Leadership Tool

On a recent Freakonomics Radio podcast, the authors of that best-selling book—Stephen J. Dubner and Steve Levitt—decided to focus on a key Asset-Based Thinking principle: Failure is Your Friend. Of course, I was intrigued!

The topic stems from the authors’ new book, Think Like A Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain, in which they promote the view that failure is unfairly stigmatized.

“I always tell my students—fail quickly. The quicker you fail the more chances you hav...