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What if the Miracle Question Worked with Corporate Teams?

Mike Cardus

A form of the Miracle Question: I tried a variation with a Project Team of Aircraft Engineers. The team and I had spent 3 days working through root-cause analysis and struggling to determine what was causing a certain screw to vibrate lose during flight. Also, this may help to establish goals. Wikipedia.

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Debriefing: A Simple Tool to Help Your Team Tackle Tough Problems

Harvard Business Review

Critical players get pulled onto another project. In business, debriefing has been widely documented as critical to accelerating projects, innovating novel approaches, and hitting difficult objectives. You also may want to hold one after significant events or project milestones. What caused our results?

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6 Ways to Screen Job Candidates for Strategic Thinking

Harvard Business Review

When you are working on a strategic project in your current job, how do you go about identifying the relevant stakeholders across the firm? Alternately, you can ask them to list a few ideal or dream projects they’d like to work on in the future and then consider what percentage of those dream projects are strategic.