The All Things Risk Podcast Ben Cattaneo
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The All Things Risk podcast explores the themes of risk, uncertainty, randomness and resilience as applied to sports, the arts, current affairs and just about any other domain. We feature long-form conversations with interesting, authentic guests who speak honestly and openly, and have loads of fascinating stories, tips and tools.
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Ep. 214: Laura Fox - On "Canary Risk"
Today, I'm delighted to welcome Laura Fox to the show. Laura is a risk management professional and the founder of Canary Risk, a firm that helps clients with outsourced risk management and to navigate uncertainty. Canary Risk is a relatively new firm, and Laura took her own personal and professional risks to set it up, so we obviously talk about that. We also cover the state of the risk profession, hiring, cognitive diversity, values, and so much more.
Laura's enthusiasm, her curiosity, courage, and authenticity come through so well in this conversation, and my favourite part is towards the end when she talks about her own decision-making approach in deciding to set up Canary Risk. And I won't say too much here because I want you to listen to it, other than to say that it's a powerful reminder that in order to make quality decisions, we need to have clarity about what's It's important to us. And that's different for each one of us.
One-size-fits-all, never fits.
Link to video version of the podcast.
Show notes:
Canary Risk
Canary clinics
Laura on LinkedIn
Michele Wucker
Rogue Waves by Jonathan Brill
How to Measure Anything by Doug Hubbard
Decision Quality by Spetzler, Winter and Meyer
Christian Hunt
FAIR methodology
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Ep. 213: Colin Pereira - Decision-Making in International Journalism in High-Risk Environments
Today, we discuss decision-making in international journalism, particularly when it comes to high-risk environments like conflict zones and natural disasters. My guest is Colin Pereira who was the Deputy Head of High Risk Security at the BBC and later Head of High Risk Security at ITN. Now he is a Director of the security consultancy HP Risk Management and a co-founder of Risk Pal, a risk assessment platform. Colin knows all about decision-making and risk to journalists in places like Ukraine and Gaza.
He talks about that and the result is a fascinating conversation. We cover how decisions to deploy journalists are made, insights into covering the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, the future of international journalism including misinformation, as well as Colin's own decision-making as a start-up founder.
Show notes:
Colin on LinkedIn
RiskPal
HP Risk Management
John Schofield’s death
CNN’s Clarissa Ward
Committee to Protect Journalists
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Ep. 212: Daniel Wagner - On The China Epiphany
This is part 2 of 2 with Daniel Wagner on focuses on his fourth and latest book about China: The China Epiphany – Comprehending China’s Relationship With America and The Rest of the World.
Show notes:
Daniel Wagner
The China Epiphany
Decision-Making in the Polycrisis Era
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Ep. 211: Daniel Wagner - Living in China Under Zero Covid
This episode was recorded in June, 2022.
My guest is Daniel Wagner, my co-author of Decision-Making in the Polycrisis Era. Daniel had just spent 15 months living and working in China with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). This coincided with China’s “zero covid” policy. This is a fascinating conversation that covers:
· Quarantine in China
· Life in Beijing as an expat (and under zero covid)
· Working at the AIIB
· Geopolitics
· Much more
Show notes:
Daniel Wagner
The China Epiphany
Decision-Making in the Polycrisis Era
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Ep. 210: Garry Honey - On Leadership and Navigating Uncertainty
My latest guest is Garry Honey. Garry trains boards, non-executive directors, and business leaders on strategy, governance, risk, and communication. He is the founder of the consultancy Chiron Risk and runs leadership courses for various business schools.
In this conversation, we cover reputation, strategic risk, leadership, and decision-making in a crisis, why so few organizations try to map out a purpose, and a vision for their futures, uncertainty in the limits of knowledge, human factors, the problem with ESG, and so much more.
If you are a leader in an organization, or if you're interested in some of the challenges with leadership in large organizations, you will want to listen to this. It's fascinating stuff.
Show notes:
Garry on LinkedIn
Chiron Risk
Larry Fink on ESG
Ataraxia
Radical Uncertainty by Mervyn King and John Kay
The Carillion bankruptcy in the UK
Wicked problems
Wilful Blindness by Margaret Heffernan
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Ep. 209: Ben Cattaneo and Daniel Wagner: Decision-Making in the Poycrisis Era
This episode is a rather special one because it is about a book I have co-written entitled Decision-Making in the Polycrisis Era and I am joined by my co-author Daniel Wagner. We are dealing with a range of overlapping and acute crises – from climate change to geopolitical upheaval and societal polarisation. At the same time, the tools and the mindset to approach decision-making are no longer fit-for-purpose.
Daniel and I discuss the polycrisis era and various aspects of it. We also cover a bit more at the end on decision-making, as we felt it was worth adding to the initial conversation. Daniel has been on the podcast previously. He is an accomplished author, country risk expert, and has recently been in Beijing and Abu Dhabi (the latter for the COP28 climate conference).
Show notes:
Decision-Making in the Polycrisis Era (links on how to purchase in your geography)
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I am a keen podcast listener and this is one of the best I have found - the guests are very varied and the perspectives they bring are fascinating.
Awesome podcast
What I really like about Ben's podcast is:
#1 The focus of the podcast
#2 The long form
#3 The exploration of how risk has shaped things
#4 The amazing people he's interviewed
Inspirational conversations
I was fascinated by the chosen theme for this show and its proved to be an excellent starting point for all the conversations. The interviewer has found some amazing people to interview, all 'every day heroes' who have achieved some amazing lifestyles without the aim being either riches or rewards. And they are all the more interesting for that. You get the sense that they just found something that they couldnt not do and started doing it. Ben Catteneo has a really easy way of drawing these normaly shy people out of themselves a little and getting them to verbalise what they live by. Inspirational