Risk Management

REASONS TO DISREGARD RISKS

Superstition. "Speak of the Devil and he shall appear."
Magical Thinking ("If we don't talk about it, it can't happen") and the corollary: Likelihood Thought-Action Fusion ("talking about it makes it happen").
The Ostrich Effect ("bury your head in the sand and the bad thing will go away").
Risk Denial ("don't document it otherwise it affects morale and upsets stakeholders and then it will happen").
Denial Culture ("Keep calm and shut the **** up").
Blame the Messenger.
Punitive Delegation: "You saw it, you fix it."
Slopy-shouldered: "Bring me solutions, not problems."
Safe Inaction: "Let sleeping dogs lie". "You don't get sacked for making no decision."
Omission Bias: "If I ignore it and it blows up, bad luck. If I poke it and it blows up, I'll get the blame."
Benign Neglect: "It's not broken enough to be worth fixing".
Strategic Inaction: "I have decided it should wait".
Wilful Ignorance: "La, la, la. Oops, dropped it in the bin."
Organisational Inertia: "We don't do it that way here".
Kick it Down the Road: "I'll move on before it happens".