Duena Blomstrom

Duena Blomstrom

Execution Debt

Stop the Excuses - Do the People Work

Execution Debt

Learning Feels Like Fun, But It Is Work

Human Debt™

The Future of Work Depends on This New Team

Human Debt™

IT versus HR - Who “Owns” the People Topic

Human Debt™

Impression Managing Against Looking UnDevOpsy

Execution Debt

The No.1 Question to Design High-Performance Hybrid Work Post Covid

Execution Debt

Policies for Hybrid Work

Execution Debt

DevOps Is Where Culture Lives

Human Debt™

How to Help Your Team through the Winter of 2020

Human Debt™

Performing Through the Apocalypse

FinTech / Emotional Banking 1.0

Learning From DevOps Superheroes

FinTech / Emotional Banking 1.0

5 Things You Can Do Today To Build Team Resilience

Execution Debt

We Need to Last - Make Resilience a Priority

Psychological Safety Research

The Agile Manifesto and Project Aristotle

Human Debt™

Leaders Need to Make Space for Caring

Psychological Safety Research

True Leaders Do the Human Work First

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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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