key person risk

plural key person risks

1. countableuncountablebusinessA risk carried by an organization that depends to a great extent on one individual for its success.

   Are we being too complacent in a space that now has one key-person risk?

   2018 February 25, Shuli Ren, “Xi's the Key-Person Risk for Emerging Markets: China's president may be around for a long time. There are two ways of looking at that .”, in Bloomberg

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   The most notable examples of key person risk occur in some of the world’s largest companies.

   2015 July 14, Matt Vickers, “Managing Key Person Risk”, in Dynamic Business

   Synonyms: key man risk