Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management failures rather than opportunities and successes. It runs exactly counter to the “can do” culture most leadership teams try to foster when implementing strategy. And many leaders have a tendency to discount the future; they’re reluctant to spend time and money now to avoid an uncertain future problem that might occur down the road, on someone else’s watch. Moreover, mitigating risk typically involves dispersing resources and diversifying investment, just the opposite of the intense focus of a successful strategy. Manages may find it antithetical to their culture to champion processes that identify the risks to the strategies they helped to formulate.