The Failure Résumé
Everyone presents the job they did not get. Trust goes up, permanently.
Outcome
Lowering the cost of admitting a mistake or asking for help.
12 activities
Everyone presents the job they did not get. Trust goes up, permanently.
Bring a problem you are stuck on. Leave with someone else's three ideas.
Everyone gets a name. Everyone says something specific and true about that person.
Three minutes, one object within arm's reach, no preparation.
It is a year from now and the project failed. Write the story of how.
Pair up, go outside, come back in forty minutes. The simplest thing on this site.
Teams bid for the things they say they care about, with a budget that does not cover them.
A gift exchange where the gift is something you figured out this year.
Three words, one round, five minutes. The highest-value-per-minute thing on this site.
Find the recurring thing that wastes everyone's time, and actually kill it.
The new starter interviews the team, on stage, with questions nobody vetted.
Build a timeline of the year on a wall, then walk it together.