Today, the premortem is increasingly popular in business circles, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies and the Harvard Business Review. But like all great ideas, it is actually nothing new. The credit goes to the Stoics. They even had a better name: premeditatio malorum (premeditation of evils). Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph, loc. 1658. Kindle Edition