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An After Action Review for the Hamburger Business Review Podcast
AAR: HBR Season 1
We’ve finished season 1 of Hamburger Business Review, a shareholder endorsed project (74%). Ten episodes of discussion about a Harvard Business School case study on McDonald’s. Closing the season I feel a growing expertise about the fast food industry, somewhere right on that edge of realizing how much I don’t know.
This is an AAR for the season as a way to look back and learn from our experience.
What is an AAR?
The after action review is a terrifying concept in business. I learned the process in the Army and I’ve tried to use it in every work setting I’ve ever been a part of. But the concept of trying to learn from past experiences forces people to think about what went wrong and what they could have done better, and I’ve never had a boss who wasn’t 100% allergic to this idea.
But KmikeyM is a “Company of One” so I can look at my own projects without having to appease the ego of fragile leaders!
I use a simple version of the AAR that asks:
- What happened?
- What worked?
- What about next time?
