Chapter 8. Risk—What Should You Worry About?
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution, which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
—Gary Ryan Blair
Topics Covered in This Chapter
It’s time to talk about an important subject that can make or break your project: risk. A lot of project managers talk about risk, but few do any thing about it. In this chapter, I spend some time laying out a methodology that is easy to use yet effective when you deal with risk.
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