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• 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
• Whenever my team sits down to spot risks, the most senior or loudest person says the first thing and suddenly everyone’s nodding along to the same two concerns
• 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
• When I ask myself "what could go wrong with this plan," I either draw a blank or come up with one vague worry

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Write reasons independently before discussing
   Everyone records failure causes alone first, so the room doesn’t converge too soon.
   The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed
3. 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
4. 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
5. Run the basic pre-mortem
   Assume the plan failed, then have everyone write down why.
   The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed
6. 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
7. Run a premortem before committing
   Imagine the decision has already failed — then ask why.
   Thinking in Bets
8. Appoint an explicit devil’s advocate role
   Give one person the formal job of arguing against the plan — making dissent structural, not personal.
   Red Teaming: Stress-Testing Plans Before They Fail
9. Run a pre-mortem before you start
   Before a project begins, ask: assume it failed — what went wrong?
   Hindsight Bias: Why Everything Seems Obvious in Retrospect
10. 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

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