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Risk: The Glass is Half-Full or Half-Empty – It's Your Choice

This article challenges leaders to treat risk as something to understand and manage rather than automatically avoid. That remains important to product…

Doug Ringer ·

Doug Ringer

This published work explores a practical product-business question through the lens of Product Development & Execution.

This article challenges leaders to treat risk as something to understand and manage rather than automatically avoid. That remains important to product businesses because growth, innovation, and timely decisions require prudent risk-taking while preserving enough information and schedule to recover when assumptions prove wrong.

Original publication: Design World

Why it still matters

The underlying leadership question remains relevant: connect customer and market evidence, clear decision rights, and disciplined execution to the business outcome.

Publication context

Originally published by Design World. The date associated with the source record is December 8, 2016.

Publication context

Product Development & Execution

Doug Ringer

Product management is a business role.

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