Researchers suggest that if possible, you diversify the group of people who are helping make the decision. Some of the juries were entirely white, while other juries were more diverse in their racial makeup. By almost every important metric, the racially mixed juries performed better at their task. Storytelling is something we instinctively do anytime we are contemplating a big decision. He calls it a “premortem.” As the name suggests, the approach is a twist on the medical procedure of post-mortem analysis.

Source: New York Times September 01, 2018 18:22 UTC