Like everything to do with risk management, there is the further danger that the existence of the risk strategy itself inoculates managers against thinking imaginatively about rare but devastating risk possibilities.
No one challenged Hisham Morgan, a community organizer in Brooklyn, when he insisted, "We want to make sure no one takes off shoes and waves them in the air" — a low-risk possibility anyway, given that the forecast called for a wind chill in the mid-twenties.
Money Market mutual funds are considered some of the lowest-risk and slowest-growth funds available, and they are a good place to park your investment while deciding what higher-risk possibilities you might consider.
So, trade secrets offer their own Faustian bargain: Keep your invention secret, but risk the possibility that it might be developed by others (and possibly patented, too!).
I couldn't risk the possibility of knowing things that were worse than my suspicions".
But few of the migrants wanted to risk the possibility of more violence.
And he preferred to risk the possibility of gangsters against the certainty of unemployment.
The Red Sox, apparently, were willing to risk the possibility of Little's replacing Don Zimmer as the Yankees' bench coach.
Most doctors would rather save a certain number of people for sure than risk the possibility that everyone might die.
