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Overcoming the Resistance to the Human Work

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Overcoming the Resistance to the Human Work

Yesterday’s article tried to present a comprehensive view of both the causes and the symptoms of the resistance we all at times exhibit towards the human work. In today’s video, Ffion Jones talks you through some of the signs you can look out for to diminish the effects of this in your own...

lock-1 By Duena Blomstrom 06 Sep 2022
Resisting the Human Work - the Greatest Challenge in the Workplace Today

Resisting the Human Work - the Greatest Challenge in the Workplace Today

We have to enter a continuous development mindset. As Gustavo Razzetti of Fearless Culture puts it “When it comes to culture, strive for evolution not revolution”. We have to comprehend that the human work is eminently necessary and that it will never be done. Neither of these points is an easy...

lock-1 By Duena Blomstrom 05 Sep 2022
Techies Don’t Quietly Quit, They (Eventually) Leave and Slam the Door

Techies Don’t Quietly Quit, They (Eventually) Leave and Slam the Door

Anyone who hasn’t lived under a proverbial rock has seen the many discussions regarding "quiet quitting" over the past few weeks. I wrote about it as well in our Chasing Psychological Safety newsletter. I put it to us that there’s no quiet quitting in technology. Or not as much as everywhere...

lock-1 By Duena Blomstrom 31 Aug 2022
The Antidote to Quiet Quitting? The Galvanising Human Work

The Antidote to Quiet Quitting? The Galvanising Human Work

Like we said yesterday, “quiet quitting” is most certainly not news and over the years it had many a names - “coasting”, “doing the bare minimum” or “inner resignation” but they all amount to the same thing - “disengagement”and its more insidiously disastrous cousin of “active disengagement” -...

lock-1 By Duena Blomstrom 30 Aug 2022
Quiet Quitting Isn't New or News

Quiet Quitting Isn't New or News

For crying out loud can we stop inventing new terms, running in the direction of the next new shiny thing and instead focus on what matters: helping people do the human work so that their lives get better at work? Can we please just hanker down on the work and land the wins of the pandemic? Can...

lock-1 By Duena Blomstrom 29 Aug 2022
Danger of Being "Un-teamy"​ Ahead

Danger of Being "Un-teamy"​ Ahead

There’s a lot we don’t talk about in the business world. A lot of silences, a lot of impostor syndrome at play and a heap load of impression management from everyone’s side at all times. We say a lot we may not truly mean and we bite our tongue and remain silent about far too many things that...

lock-1 By Duena Blomstrom 24 Aug 2022
If You're Not Supported Regarding Self-Care: Leave!

If You're Not Supported Regarding Self-Care: Leave!

Yesterday’s article about the brewing further crisis we may be facing if we keep ignoring the major “to do” of having to process what we have been through over the pandemic has gotten a lot of reactions. I am very grateful to all the people who have sent messages sharing honestly and frankly....

lock-1 By Duena Blomstrom 23 Aug 2022
Stop Post-Pandemic Denial - Empower the Human Work

Stop Post-Pandemic Denial - Empower the Human Work

As promised last week I am picking up the “state of us post pandemic” once again because we are nowhere better and it’s now officially “a few years down the line”. Beware this will be an up-in-arms article in the vein of the “Nobody’s OK FFS” ones of a few weeks ago and that’s because we have to...

lock-1 By Duena Blomstrom 22 Aug 2022
Vacations, Self-Care and Avoiding Burnout and Disengagement

Vacations, Self-Care and Avoiding Burnout and Disengagement

As I’m sure you noticed *insert self-deprecating eye roll* there was no article last week and that’s because I was on a rare no-device vacation. Was it the restorative break I was hoping for? Perhaps not, I seem to have suffered from the same affliction I hear is widespread these days - the...

lock-1 By Duena Blomstrom 17 Aug 2022
Will HR Be the Heroes We Need?

Will HR Be the Heroes We Need?

The article I wrote yesterday was designed to give us a different perspective. We collectively spend entirely too much time wondering whose fault it is. In this case - whose job is it to admit being responsible for the HumanDebt and fix it. And the easy answer is HR. This is why it was worth...

lock-1 By Duena Blomstrom 16 Aug 2022
In Defense of HR

In Defense of HR

Before anything else let me start by saying that you won't "hear me" moan about the term "HR" here. We don't need me to repeat it, obviously referring to humans as "resources" is insanely bad but here we are and the polemics on the term won't move us further and movement is what we all so...

lock-1 By Duena Blomstrom 15 Aug 2022
Tools and Systems for Belonging

Tools and Systems for Belonging

Today's newsletter is sponsored by Workplace from Meta, where culture and technology come together to create a more productive future of work. Check out www.workplace.com/future to learn more. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

lock-1 By Duena Blomstrom 03 Aug 2022
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About Duena Blomstrom and her independent writing on AI, humanity, Human Debt, power, and the human cost of technological progress.