A leadership team gathered around a table after hours, reviewing decisions on a wall of print-outs.
Business C1 · Unit 3 · Leadership & change management

3A. Looking back on the pivot

C1 · Advanced Business English · modal perfects (should/might/could/would have)

Unit 3 · Epigraph
"In hindsight, everything is obvious. In foresight, almost nothing is."
— attributed to Daniel Kahneman
Objectives

What you'll be able to do

4 min
  • Distinguish a wrong outcome from a wrong decision — and defend the distinction out loud.
  • Deploy modal perfects (should/might/could/would/ought to have) with C1 register precision.
  • Run a blameless retrospective on a decision of your own.
  • Recognise hindsight bias in your own retrospective language and name it.
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