Coaching practices for We Ran a Real Critique of the Plan Found Genuine Holes Wrote Them All Down in a Nice Risk List and Then Went Ahead with the Exact Same Plan Unchanged So the Whole Thing Was Theater and We're About to Walk Straight Into the Problems We Already Spotted

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• We ran a real critique of the plan, found genuine holes, wrote them all down in a nice risk list
• My whole plan quietly rests on a handful of things I’ve just taken for granted
• I’m about to commit real time and money to this plan, and it looks solid
• We’ve all fallen in love with this plan and the room’s gone warm and agreeable, and now it feels almost rude to be the one raising what could go wrong
• I’m about to commit to this plan and on paper it looks solid, but a quiet part of me suspects I’m too sold on it to see the holes

Practices that may help

1. Require the plan to change, not just the risk register
   A red team exercise that doesn’t change the plan has accomplished nothing.
   Red Teaming: Stress-Testing Plans Before They Fail
2. Map and stress-test your key assumptions
   Before executing, list the assumptions the plan depends on — then ask which ones would kill it if wrong.
   Red Teaming: Stress-Testing Plans Before They Fail
3. Run a pre-mortem before committing to a plan
   Imagine the plan has already failed and ask what went wrong.
   Confirmation Bias: Seeing What You Expect to See
4. Black hat: identify risks and why something could fail
   Apply the most rigorous critical scrutiny to the idea — the black hat is the voice of caution and evidence-based pessimism.
   Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical
5. The premortem (imagine the project already failed)
   Before starting, assume the plan has already failed and ask why — then fix it now.
   Premeditatio Malorum, in Depth
6. Run the basic pre-mortem
   Assume the plan failed, then have everyone write down why.
   The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed
7. Red-team your plan with a formal adversarial review
   Assign someone the explicit role of finding every way your plan could be wrong or fail.
   Confirmation Bias: Seeing What You Expect to See
8. Combine the pre-mortem with red team pressure
   Run a pre-mortem and then ask the red team to find the failure mode the team missed.
   Red Teaming: Stress-Testing Plans Before They Fail
9. Run a pre-mortem to interrupt forward narrative construction
   Before committing to a plan, imagine it failed completely — then generate the most plausible story of why.
   The Narrative Fallacy: Why We Can’t Stop Making Stories
10. Run a mental simulation before committing to a course of action
    Before acting on a recognized situation, mentally run through how your intended response plays out.
    Recognition-Primed Decision Making

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