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Risk Worth Taking

by Adam Johnson & Peter Barnes

Risk Worth Taking is a podcast about organisations, technology, and what happens when change arrives faster than expected. It is hosted by Adam Johnson and Peter Barnes, two practitioners who work with senior leaders on AI adoption and transformation. Most organisations begin with the question of how to control AI. By the time that conversation starts, people are already using it, and most of them are trying to create value rather than risk. Adam and Peter start from a different question: what is actually happening inside the organisation? Their conversations often begin with AI and quickly move to trust, ownership, accountability, and leadership. When an organisation says it has an AI problem, it frequently has a trust problem, an ownership problem, or a decision-making problem that AI has simply made visible. AI does not create new organisational weaknesses. It forces existing ones into the open, and it does so faster than before. Each episode is an unscripted, p

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Episodes

  1. How Do We Decide What Matters?

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A leadership team spends two hours debating one small use of AI. Meanwhile, a far bigger one is already running elsewhere in the organisation, and almost nobody is discussing it. Adam and…

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  2. Is Control Really The Objective?

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A national examination body discovers that the people writing its high-stakes exam papers have been working somewhere IT never approved, and never knew about. Nobody involved thought they were...

  3. Trailer 2 - Risk Worth Taking

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Risk Worth Taking starts from one idea: AI isn’t creating new organisational weaknesses, it is exposing the ones that were already there, faster. Adam Johnson and Peter Barnes explore what…

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  4. Why Are We Having This Conversation?

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Everyone is asking how to control AI. Adam and Peter think that may be the wrong question. In this opening conversation, two hosts from very different backgrounds explain why they keep…

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  5. Trailer 1 - Risk Worth Taking

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Risk Worth Taking explores what AI exposes inside organisations, from control and ownership to trust and leadership, through conversations with the people who run them.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Risk Worth Taking is a podcast about organisations, technology, and what happens when change arrives faster than expected. It is hosted by Adam Johnson and Peter Barnes, two practitioners who work with senior leaders on AI adoption and transformation.

Most organisations begin with the question of how to control AI. By the time that conversation starts, people are already using it, and most of them are trying to create value rather than risk. Adam and Peter start from a different question: what is actually happening inside the organisation?

Their conversations often begin with AI and quickly move to trust, ownership, accountability, and leadership. When an organisation says it has an AI problem, it frequently has a trust problem, an ownership problem, or a decision-making problem that AI has simply made visible. AI does not create new organisational weaknesses. It forces existing ones into the open, and it does so faster than before.

Each episode is an unscripted, p

HOSTED BY

Adam Johnson & Peter Barnes

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Risk Worth Taking is a podcast about organisations, technology, and what happens when change arrives faster than expected. It is hosted by Adam Johnson and Peter Barnes, two practitioners who work with senior leaders on AI adoption and transformation. Most organisations begin with the question of...

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Risk Worth Taking is created and hosted by Adam Johnson & Peter Barnes.
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