Trailer 1
Trailer 1 - Risk Worth Taking
What does a major technology shift reveal about how an organisation actually works?
A short introduction to Risk Worth Taking, the organisational questions behind the show, and the journey ahead.
Season 1 · AI
Risk Worth Taking
Understanding organisations through the lens of AI.
Major technology shifts don't just change what organisations can do. They reveal how organisations actually work: where decisions sit, who is trusted, what people can see, and what happens beyond the formal process.
A central provocation
AI isn't creating new organisational weaknesses. It's exposing them faster.
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Discovery
02
Adoption
03
Decisions
04
Consequences
All faster.
The premise
AI is the lens.
The organisation is the subject.
Trust
Ownership
Visibility
Capability
Decision-making
Relationships
Leadership
Human systems
Organisations are social systems disguised as process systems.
The most important system is often the unwritten one: the relationships, assumptions, workarounds, and trust networks that make the formal organisation function.
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Start with the trailer
Questions we're exploring
01Who owns a decision when the technology crosses organisational boundaries?
02What is already happening outside the formal process?
03Who is trusted when the evidence is incomplete?
04What capability exists beyond the policy on paper?
05What happens when consequences arrive faster than understanding?
The hosts
Experienced practitioners. Open questions.
The organisational detective
Peter Barnes
Peter is known for challenging conventional assumptions and for helping leaders understand not just how organisations are supposed to work, but how they actually work.
The witness to successive technology transitions
Adam Johnson
Adam asks what organisations have seen before, what's actually different this time, and which patterns are repeating.
Risk Worth Taking explores how organisations respond to major technology shifts. Using AI as its first lens, the series examines the invisible systems of trust, ownership, relationships, and decision-making that determine whether organisations adapt successfully. AI isn't creating new organisational weaknesses. It's exposing them faster than ever before. The challenge for leaders is not simply understanding the technology, but understanding the organisation well enough to respond before the consequences arrive. 2 published ideas.