The Risks of Empowering Teams - and How to Mitigate Them
Empowering teams can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, giving people the freedom to make decisions fosters innovation, motivation, and agility which improves the chances of product success. On the other hand, too much autonomy without the right guardrails can trigger costly inefficiencies, strategic misalignments, reputational slip-ups, and even ethical or legal pitfalls.
