@andrew.bagley: Most leadership failures aren’t caused by bad intentions.
They’re caused by miscalibrated attention We tend to over-invest in risks that are vivid, emotional, and rare… and under-invest in risks that are quiet, cumulative, and statistically inevitable. This isn’t just a parenting issue.
It’s a leadership issue. The same bias shows up when executives obsess over PR crises while ignoring cultural drift.
When companies pour resources into low-probability threats and neglect high-frequency frictions.
When hiring managers fear the “wrong hire” more than the cost of unclear incentives, bad onboarding, or invisible norms. Behavioral science has a name for this: availability bias.
But the real cost isn’t cognitive—it’s strategic. The question worth asking isn’t:
What’s the worst thing that could happen? It’s: What’s most likely to happen repeatedly, early, and out of sight—and shape behavior over time? That’s where leverage lives. In parenting, leadership, marketing, and culture design. Curious how others here think about risk perception in their organizations.
Where do you see attention being misallocated—not because people don’t care, but because the signal is quieter? #RiskPerception

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