We need to speak about our technologists again - what are they like? Who are they? Who needs to spend time comprehending them and accommodating their needs? Obviously, the most immediate answer is "the team leader" but anyone who has a vested interest in getting a product job done in a certain...
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I was looking for an article to send to a journalist that asked for a link and I ended up taking a long stroll down what we were saying roughly a year ago and musing how/if things have changed. A year ago we were writing in this article entitled “Psychological Safety for the team BY the team”
First of all, an apology - this newsletter hasn’t had this big of a gap before, this is the first time in two years I’ve slacked. I’m very grateful to all the readers who asked how I was and if everything was alright. It definitely is, more than alright, I’ve just been on the road from Central...
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Our “broken record” thesis? “We have to normalise doing “the human work” if we expect performance”, you read it here every week. This week I invite us again, to think of Emotional Intelligence. We wrote about it often and as a company, we spent a long time thinking about the topic and its...
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We are now quite some time into the big WFH experiment and it’s one we already know succeeded. No one out there, not even the Elon’s and the Jamie’s of the world are trying to claim anything other than the truth - if remote work worked for you and your enterprise at any one point during the...
In yesterday’s article, we tried to once more sound the alarm bell for all those who are tasked with making enterprises succeed when it comes to the levels of engagement of your staff. I do wonder at times if even one person was alarmed. I don’t believe so and that can only mean one thing - we...
“Only 14% of professionals in Europe are engaged at work, a survey shows – compared to 33% in North America and 21% globally” was revealed in a series of articles said this week and I can’t imagine why we are so calm about it! This is immensely bad news! Not only for the lives of the people that...
Are we a team in the business world? All of us? What about “in tech”? Are we trying to solve problems and advance? Are we having a common goal to grow and achieve more? How safe are we to do so? Is there any Psychological Safety at the level of the larger business team context? Probably not and...
One of the most ironic things about the much-needed people work is that it’s hard for everyone to get started and there’s a lot of “human resistance” to doing it. We talk a lot about ways to reduce some of the HumanDebt™and how, on a quest to do so, most enterprises have to overcome immense...
This week we explored command and control further and its relationship with courage. In the midst of this heavy topic, we also posted this interview with the inimitable Bryan Finster so make sure you give that a watch. There are so many absolutely fascinating individuals with their hearts in the...
When you listen to today’s Superhero you can tell why he is being featured - his calm and assured demeanour only serves to further underline the passion he carries. For the work and for the people. Most importantly, the fearlessness. It is his lack of fear that I need us to focus on today. We...
We say this every week - as an organisation that is hoping to be highly competitive in the new world of work, as a company eager to minimise the HumanDebt™ in order to win, what you must do most urgently is to empower your teams with tools and permission and then distribute the human work to the...
“Have a productive day!” was how one of the Severance bosses used to end conversations and their thunderous expression dripping with contempt and cutting tone made it into both an insult and a menace. It’s unimaginable that adults could be treated that way by their employers, right? Purely...
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.
