Lunch & Learn Firefighting to Foresight: Managing Risk and Opportunity

Opportunity, as attributed to Thomas Edison, “is missed by most people because it wears overalls and looks like work.” Many leaders quote Edison’s dogged fixation on positive outcomes to help their teams focus on achieving success instead of avoiding failure.
Experienced program managers know the challenge of teams who miss this “positive side of risk” by chasing cascading “what-if” bad outcomes or a series of short-term solutions that conflict with high-level goals.

In this talk, Matthew shares an empowering approach to program risk, making space for the serendipitous while acknowledging the hazardous. The difference between success and failure can be a handful of things that went right, well-prepared for and acted on. Matthew will share stories from his decade with Sonos, the speaker brand who faced a series of critical decisions starting in 2020.
https://pmi-nnv.org/calendar?eventId=42643