<This article was originally published on the www. duenablomstrom.com website here and is cross-posted from Duena's Newsletter "Chasing Psychological Safety"> We’re really pleased and very hopeful to announce the first of two podcasts that launched last week to help us all have better spaces to...
Let’s talk about hearts, minds, impression management in our public persona and authentic leadership, personal branding, social media and neurodivergence. Oh and about Human Debt and the Human Work we need and how to help HR help us all, while we’re at it. All the things. Today’s article is...
Let's not sugarcoat it, no one's job is guaranteed in the age of AI. Not mine, not yours reading this and certainly not HR's. We all know that the vast majority of the activities HR has been reduced to handling are, while crucial, are perfectly "automatable". Hiring these days never requires...
<This article was originally published on the www. duenablomstrom.com website here> Much as we get impatient and frustrated when we are in the belly of the beast, in the world of work, there is a clear evolution in terms of authenticity and courage.
FinTech / Emotional Banking 1.0
The longer it takes to land the new truths of the workplace and the longer we confuse matters with wooden language and desperation to establish proprietary frameworks, the further we are from performance. It’s that simple. Performance is not possible in the absence of safety and happiness. Our...
Once our new podcast “People AND Tech” (finally!) -word inserted to convey frustration with the speed!:)- is out, you’ll hear Dave (Ballantyne - VP of Engineering at Evora Global, my husband and my co-host) and I discuss this theme that Bryan Finster instigated with this observation: While his...
<This article was originally published on the www. duenablomstrom.com website here> Explaining the need for the Human Work has changed over the last year. I’d like to believe that there has been a marked difference in the way people are receiving it and that it is a good sign judging by what we...
Back in the day (aka a couple of years back when I first started on the journey of exclusively figuring out how to lower HumanDebt and enable humanity in tech), I spent quite a lot of time being up in arms about “the people people” and how they shouldn't have let all this debt accumulate in the...
Let’s presume who works from where were resolved. Crystal clear, set in stone, no ambiguity. How wonderful would life be? Team/collaborative work when we are best primed for it in joyous, fun, creative and innovative meetings of psychologically safe and tight-knit teams in inspiring...
Hello everyone, long time no write! Hope you enjoyed the break :) Who knew launching a unicorn search (companies I can rid of HumanDebt™ and help win at culture and therefore performance so I showcase them in my 4th book) and editing my "Tech-Led Culture" book was going to be this intensive?!?...
This shifting through potential future unicorns business is not as easy as I had anticipated, y’all! For those of you who haven’t yet seen it, last week I launched a Unicorn search of sorts in that I am trying to find the best candidates for the success stories in my next book whom I will kit...
(This article is published on both Newsletters, apologies for the repetition if you’re subscribed to both!) An exciting announcement on my part: Having wrapped up my “Tech-Led Culture” book, I’m looking for 1-2 companies (start-ups or scale-ups) that I can make into a massive success story by...
Today’s article was going to be about the term “DevOps Culture” as it intrigues me both in terminology, definition and (feeble and spotty) execution. But that article will have to wait and instead, I will possibly annoy some of my both-newsletters-subscribers. As I said before, the intersection...
One of my many pet peeves is being a victim. I stay away from telling my life story as it sounds like it’s made up to be laced with these many horrific moments and hardships at every corner. I try not to delve into that part, nor on being a woman, an immigrant, neuro-divergent or the mother of a...
Before anything other, I've given in and joined Substack. You can find me and a bunch of exclusive videos and writings at duena.substack.com and this article has its juicy bits continued on there if you care to have more behind-the-scenes-meat on the DevOps goss bone. I was (virtually) shown...
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.
