Passionately Wrong Podcast

E004: When Certainty Kills

James Bellerjeau and Randy Surles Season 1 Episode 4

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

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