# 5 Risks You Have To Take as a Leader Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/management-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365647/5-risks-you-have-to-take-as-a-leader Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/management-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365647/5-risks-you-have-to-take-as-a-leader.md Podcast: [Management Tech Brief By HackerNoon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/management-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365647) Published: 2026-01-22T16:01:10+00:00 Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/f7904aa5 Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/f7904aa5/3d2ebaac.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/management-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365647/episodes/5-risks-you-have-to-take-as-a-leader Duration seconds: 1086 ## Resource This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/5-risks-you-have-to-take-as-a-leader . Here are the 5 risks every leader must take daily because it’s impossible to get better at anything without consistent practice. Check more stories related to management at: https://hackernoon.com/c/management . You can also check exclusive content about #leadership , #management-and-leadership , #engineering-leadership , #leadership-development , #risk-mitigation , #risk-management , #effective-leadership , #hackernoon-top-story , and more. This story was written by: @vinitabansal . Learn more about this writer by checking @vinitabansal's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Leaders need to have a high appetite for taking risks, says Seth Godin. The biggest risk as a leader is playing safe and not taking any risks, he says. Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/management-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365647/episodes/5-risks-you-have-to-take-as-a-leader/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/management-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365647/5-risks-you-have-to-take-as-a-leader.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.