Lead Change Blog

JULY 20, 2020

Use Your Journal for Personal After-Action Review. The military uses after-action reviews to critique operational performance. During the day, capture your thoughts about what you did and how you could do it better. Record those things in your journal. Then reflect on them and change your behavior.

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After Action Review Brainstorming Leadership Development Review 399

Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

If you’ll cultivate the discipline of conducting After Action Reviews (the term the U.S. military uses for the briefing that occurs after every mission) to be sure you think deeply about what worked; what didn’t and what can be improved, this will create energy in the moment and momentum for your next challenge.

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Succession After Action Review Energy Goal 183

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They have after-action reviews, they talk about bad news, and they exhibit traits of what we call a “learning culture.” And fifth, while these companies do have leadership “programs,” they are embedded in the business, and HR does not operate alone.

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Leadership Pipeline Leadership After Action Review Pharmaceuticals 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). Another tried generating operational efficiencies through a different supply chain control tower process. Someone else designed an experiment to get a plant operation down to zero accidents. For example, one participant focused on creating a new pricing scheme.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

. “For the military,” Petraeus observed, “learning faster than the enemy meant deploying lessons learned teams and ensuring commanders are focused on identifying the need to make changes to our big ideas, campaign plans, organizational structures, equipment, and operational bases.”

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Eighteen months earlier, he’d made arguably the worst decision he ever made, to support an ill-conceived covert operation to unseat Fidel Castro, known today as the Bay of Pigs fiasco. And yet, as I write in more detail in Collaboration , after the Bay of Pigs Kennedy brilliantly retooled his group decision-making process.

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Groupthink Janis Consensus After Action Review 9

QAspire

APRIL 14, 2013

Here are some common pitfalls that should be avoided in any form of reflective exercise: No Actions, No Results: In many other methodologies and cultures, Hansei is termed differently, like retrospectives in Scrum and After Action Reviews in American Culture (developed by US Army). Hansei is an attitude, a way of working.

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Kaizen After Action Review Quality Bottom-up 152