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Take periodic temperature checks

Take periodic temperature checks

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Take periodic temperature checks

- As the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result. We may laugh, but we do it all the time. We're working in the weeds to crank the workout but not necessarily sticking our head up every now and then to analyze how things are going and identifying what might need to be changed. It's so important to develop some sort of debrief process to critically analyze what's working well and what the team could do differently. Actually, many different industries implement this sort of technique to encourage continuous improvement. In healthcare, they conduct M&M or morbidity and mortality sessions to enhance patient care outcomes. The military conducts after action reviews to analyze what happened, why it happened and how it could be done better in the future. And in professional sports, teams often review tape of the previous game before the next practice to critically analyze how…

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