Before committing to a big decision, imagine it failed a year from now and list three primary causes.

For every critical role on your team, ask: if its holder vanished tomorrow for a month, who could cover? Map the gaps and build a plan to close them.

Pick three tasks that make today a success regardless of anything else, and finish them before noon.

Imagine your decision failed a year from now and write the reasons today — preventing 70% of catastrophes.

When he opens sensitive topic, say "tell me more" vs reply.

List your top 10 risks with probability, impact, and owner; review the first Monday each month.

Imagine the project failed entirely a year from now; list 7 plausible reasons before starting.

30 days before audit: self-review controls — find gaps before auditor does.

Before signing: 12 red flags that may cost thousands later.

List "things only X knows" — each is risk if they leave.

For every critical process ask: if this person or system vanished tomorrow, what happens?

Craft three plausible futures (optimistic, base, hard) and test your decisions against each.

Task a separate team with attacking your plan as if they were a smart adversary — before reality discovers it.

15 min before a big decision: imagine it failed a year later, list 5 likely causes with mitigations.

Discuss drugs/alcohol/sex via questions, not lectures. Curiosity opens when invited, not imposed.

At any moment, one tab, one window, one task — multitasking is a neural myth.