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Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Is market performance predictable for a specific product or class of products? Worse still, we will punish employees even if they do everything right, and create incentives to avoid unpredictable products, even though these products are essential for growth. Look at the variance of your new-market products.