A catalog by Liora Nemmick

Before the Picture Clears

Practical team sessions and tools from the LOOM Cycle: a field-tested system for making sound decisions while the facts are still arriving. Free to browse. Built to run with your own team.

Start Here

Orient yourself in one sitting, then diagnose where your team’s decisions actually break.

Run the Cycle with Your Team

Facilitated working sessions, one per move, each built to run against a live decision your team faces right now.

Build the Practice

Turn one good session into a durable capability: the review ritual and the thirty-day installation.

You rarely get the whole picture in time. You can still make a sound move.

Before the Picture Clears

The distinction the whole practice rests on

Not my talk, and worth an hour of yours. Annie Duke separates decision quality from outcome quality more clearly than I manage in a chapter: a sound reversible call can meet bad luck, and a sloppy gamble can succeed. Everything in the Learning Receipt module depends on your team being able to tell those two apart.

About the author

Liora Nemmick

Liora Nemmick is an operations adviser and the creator of the LOOM Cycle. She spent nineteen years in logistics, software operations, and incident response, including five years as chief operating officer of Trellis Harbor, and now advises executive teams through Nemmick Practice. Her field archive of 612 consequential decisions from 41 teams became Before the Picture Clears. She writes The Working Signal, a weekly newsletter read by 38,400 managers, and lives in Providence, Rhode Island.