Why Your Plans Will Fail After Five Minutes, and How To Fix Them, with Kevin Fong

Welcome to Intelligence Square where great minds meet. I'm senior producer Mia Sorrenti. Why do carefully made plans so often fall apart the moment a crisis begins? And what can emergency medicine, spaceflight, and disaster response teach us about making better decisions when events refuse to follow the script? On today's episode, Dr.

Kevin Fong speaks to host Helen Chersky about what he's learned from working in some of the world's most high-pressure environments and his lessons for how successful teams can adapt to uncertainty and learn from failure. Host join our host, Helen Chersky now, with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared, Kevin. It's a real pleasure to talk to you about your book here, which I'm holding up for those who are watching on video, Minute Six. I'm gonna hold it up as well, look.

And you've got it behind you as well. You're all organized with the props. That's brilliant. I genuinely think this is a brilliant book. I'm gonna say that up front and I'm not just saying that because, you know, I know you and I'm your friend and we've talked about this a little bit along the way, but because it really is a brilliant book.

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