Kayvan Kian is the author of What Is Water? and a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, where he founded the Young Leaders Forum. The project you invested everything in has failed. The business ...

I developed the pre-mortem method 30 years ago, to help my company cut down on problems when we performed projects. We had no grand ambitions for the method. And yet, over the decades the pre-mortem ...

I have been writing about the pre-mortem method for almost 20 years, since my article in the Harvard Business Review (Klein, 2007), and have posted several essays on the pre-mortem on this blog. The ...

Teams racing toward a product launch or a major investment rarely pause to ask what could go wrong. The pre-mortem, a structured exercise that imagines failure before it happens, has been a staple of ...

Post-mortems should happen after every major project, meeting, or incident, not just annually. Create a safe, no-blame environment with clear roles, checklists and documented feedback. Pre-mortems ...

In New York, the traditional mechanism of distributing the property of a deceased client is accomplished through the probate process, which utilizes a last will and testament to govern the ...

“Pre-mortem probate” — surely that's an oxymoron? A will becomes effective only upon the death of its maker. To probate a person's last will and testament, meaning to prove the will's validity, months ...