E004: When Certainty Kills

Passionately Wrong Podcast Episode E004

When Certainty Kills

Key takeaway: No one is perfect. Do good pre-mortem planning, listen to others, have contingency plans, accept criticism, and learn from your mistakes.

Topics covered in this video:

• Open your mind to competing ideas
• Build doubt into your process
• Listen
• Allow peers/ team to express their opinions
• pre-mortem planning; Adopt a standard planning process and adapt to the situation; update as needed
• Crisis Planning
• PACE plan - Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency
• Make a plan for failure.
• Technology advances all the time; incorporate it into your plans
• Post-mortem; AAR - After Action Review; adapt plans due to lessons learned
• Acknowledge and Learn from mistakes
• Accept criticism
• Always start planning by adding the words (if only in your head) “I’m probably right, but I could be wrong”.

Resources: 

Life in the Fast Lane by Tom Dwelle (Biography of a Vietnam Aviator)

On the Wings of Eagle by Ken Follett (The True Story of a Civilian Rescue in 1978 Iran)

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink