The Five-Minute Failure Postmortem
Run a short personal postmortem that turns a missed deadline into a prevention action.
Luis missed the legal review cutoff by 40 minutes, delaying contract signature to Monday. His hot story is, I am unreliable under pressure. Five-minute postmortem: impact -> bounded cause -> changed condition -> prevention action. The common shortcut is to apologize, promise to be more careful, and leave the same deadline system in place. Impact Name the specific business effect: contract signature moved from Friday to Monday. Specific impact prevents pervasiveness. The miss mattered, but it did not break every part of the deal. Bounded cause Identify the mechanism: legal review was treated as a final reminder instead of a…
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