Wicked Problems Podcast
I'm Toby Corballis, Partner at Adaptavis, and your host on a journey through the world of fascinating global and business problems being worked on and thought about by some extremely clever people from the worlds of business and academia.
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AI Adoption Is a Psychology Problem, Not a Technology Problem (opens the original)
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AI adoption fails when organisations treat it as a software rollout rather than a change to work, identity and accountability. In Series 4, Episode 9 of Wicked Problems , Toby Corballis speaks with behavioural scientist Dr Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts and author of The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results . They discuss AI work slop, metacompetence, professional identity, shadow AI, governance bottlenecks and the changing role of human judgement. The
AI Can Write Your OKRs. That Doesn't Make Them Strategy (opens the original)
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AI can generate objectives and key results in seconds. That does not mean it understands your strategy. In Series 4, Episode 8 of Wicked Problems , Toby Corballis speaks with Mike Horwath, founder of The OKR Hub, about how OKRs make strategy measurable, why the process of creating them matters, and where AI can genuinely improve execution. They explore KPIs, context and data quality, capability maturity, Kanban, portfolio reporting, token costs and the risk of strategic homogenisation. Mike Horw
Why EV and AI Adoption Depend on Better Communication with Jess Shanahan (opens the original)
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This long-form episode of Wicked Problems is a conversation about how EV and AI adoption share the same communication problem: the people designing and promoting these technologies tend to foreground complexity that users neither need nor value. Toby Corballis and e-mobility communications specialist Jess Shanahan examine why clearer, more human communication matters—from selling electric cars to introducing AI inside organisations. Their conversation also moves beneath the messaging. Legacy sys
Why AI Implementation Fails When Organisations Move Faster Than They Can Govern (opens the original)
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This long-form episode of Wicked Problems is a practical conversation about AI adoption after the initial hype. Toby Corballis and Marcellus Lindsay look beyond the promise of automation and ask what happens when AI is introduced into organisations that cannot yet govern its cost, risk, data, accountability or human impact. The discussion moves between real-world implementation, change leadership, AI literacy, trust, hallucinations, token costs, agentic AI, and the familiar pattern of technology
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