Are you achieving failure?

Eric Ries describes the idea of achieving failure in his book The Lean Startup as, “successfully executing a plan that leads nowhere”. As product leaders, we need to find ways to prove out that the plan we are executing on is leading us somewhere valuable, and be bold enough to accept that sometimes we’ll find […]

Is it worth the risk?

If you treat risk as the enemy, you’ll achieve nothing as a leader and product manager. This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn. Eric Ries, The Lean Startup Failure, or at least the risk of failure, is how we learn. It’s how we […]