Recently I attended a training/meeting where the DEAD Man test was mentioned. It’s the same concept as I have written about previously under the heading, “nature abhors a vacuum.” The concept here, though the same as previously discussed, is presented in a very different way and may strike a chord of understanding for some.
This is the idea. If your objective is to begin or increase a behavior that a “dead man or woman” could do, then you probably have a poor or even dead objective.
For example: Any time that your objective is that someone NOT do something, then that is something a dead man could do and is almost always a very poor objective.
There are some exceptions to this rule. There may be a time that you need someone to sit quietly for a brief period. Well a dead man could do that but it still may be appropriate.
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