The Bots & Bosses Podcast
Episode 0036 - Meet the Author Is Not a Signing It’s a Listening Tour
22 February 2026 19:15 johner3
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John Binks recounts a listening tour at two Barnes & Noble events where candid bookstore conversations revealed how AI is changing work: quiet, unapproved tool use; managers squeezed between risk and speed; fears of irrelevance; and a shift from hype to practical "how-to" questions.
Episode 36 highlights four patterns from those meetings and urges leaders to build psychological safety so honest AI conversations happen inside the workplace rather than only in neutral public spaces.
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