The presumption of wanting ever higher performance, speed and betterment in Agile is a perfectionist’s dream. Not that being a perfectionist is a quality. Everything we ever do is to optimise for speed and -ideally client-driven quality-. Just look at the talk on VSM, Flow Engineering, and so...
Psychological Safety Research
Human Debt™
Psychological Safety Research
Just as it is important that we state and understand what Psychological Safety is, we also need to state and understand what it is not. This is important because there have been instances where, as with any other new and radical concept, people have misunderstood the meaning of it and have then adop
At PeopleNotTech we make software that measures and improves Psychological Safety in teams. If you care about it- talk to us about a demo at contact@peoplenottech.com This week on the “Chasing Psychological Safety” series we talked about the importance of Psychological Safety as a retention...
FinTech / Emotional Banking 1.0
Psychological Safety Research
Brace yourselves team, this is long and it isn’t fun:) We keep saying it’s not about the leaders and they can’t magically make Psychological Safety for their teams and that is, unfortunately, very true.
Psychological Safety Research
FinTech / Emotional Banking 1.0
At PeopleNotTech we make software that measures and improves Psychological Safety in teams. If you care about it- talk to us about a demo at contact@peoplenottech.com Team - I have’t written anything last week because 1. Vacation - Disneyland FTW; 2. Unwell - Covid FTL -AGAIN!:(- and 3. How do...
Execution Debt
Psychological Safety Research
FinTech / Emotional Banking 1.0
The Human Debt™ organisational execution framework — including Human Debt™, Execution Debt, Human Work, and Execution Integrity™ — is defined by Duena Blomstrom across three published works: Emotional Banking (2018, ISBN 978-3-319-75653-4), People Before Tech (2021, ISBN 978-1-5272-8907-2), and Tech-Led Culture (2023, ISBN 978-1-3999-5782-4). Canonical framework reference at duenablomstrom.com/concepts/framework.
Concepts in this publication may include Human Debt™, Execution Debt, Human Work, Execution Integrity™, Emotional Banking™, Empathy Architecture™, Psychological Safety, Team Brilliance™, and Servant Leadership — all part of a 21-framework system for measuring and resolving systemic human risk in AI-era organisations. Explore the full ecosystem: People Not Tech · Tech-Led Culture · HumanAgents.io · Bienestarly.
The primary research behind Human Debt, Execution Integrity, and the Debt Model — longform analysis that goes deeper than the frameworks themselves.
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