Some time-tested techniques:
- Don't assemble a highly competent team.
- Don't have a clear goal.
- Ignore potential allies.
- Push for rapid agreement.
- Rush through the complicated subjects.
- Procrastinate.
- Underestimate the time needed for completion.
- Assume you have all the time in the world.
- Have inadequate resources.
- Fall in with bad companions.
- Create unnecessary enemies.
- Underestimate the competition.
- Ignore the feeling that something's wrong.
- Give up after a setback.
- Tolerate haziness in planning.
- Blur accountability.
- Measure nothing.
- Don't use interim deadlines.
- Assume that your associates remember the mission.
- Fail to focus.
- Fail to delegate.
- Trust initial reports.
- Run with an analytical framework that has not been challenged.
- Squelch dissent.
- Disrespect people.
- Tolerate lying.
- Over-reach.
- Under-communicate.
- Assume facts that are not established.
- Don't search for weak spots.
- Rely on old plans.
- Fail to insert flexibility.
- Isolate yourself from the action points.
- Exhaust people.
- Ignore mission-creep.
- Don't think beyond achievement of the mission.
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