Analyze what went wrong in decisions

Conduct honest analysis of what went wrong in a past event or decision

Understand failures deeply without pointing fingers, enabling pattern recognition

• · Event or failure (e.g., deal, quarter, hire, feature launch)
• · Context (goals, decisions made)
• · outcomes

• · Postmortem report (not blame-focused)
• · root causes identified
• · learnings and next actions

Event completed; enough context to analyze

Blame-focused framing; insufficient context; unclear outcomes

• · Blameless framing
• · Root cause focus
• · Clear learnings extraction