Chasing Future Unicorns

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 with the Aristotle principles, our PeopleNotTech Team Dashboard and the method I’ve developed to lower HumanDebt. There’s more information at www.duenablomstrom.com/ccoforhire and keep the recommendations and suggestions coming because, while I met some interesting companies, only one of them has potential so far.

Of course, even finding out how they are each doing so I can make a decision to come on board and execute this one-year change is a job., One that’s consuming but fascinating.

That said, I realised that while it may make some uncomfortable, there is no reason to conduct any lengthy interviews and discoveries, at least not at first, as the method is the same for everyone - Do the daily Human Work with the help of the software - Increase EQ - Be empathic and kind to yourself and others - Learn - Increase the team’s Psychological Safety and the organisation’s Aristotle Score. Where I would like to focus my attention is on democratising the science that makes a difference at all levels of the enterprise and focusing on creating a data-led-people-culture with a trusted feedback mechanism where people can keep it real and see they have been heard and appreciated.

Don’t let the latest sensationalist headlines of “wellbeing initiatives don’t work" fool you as the caveats are numerous and chief amongst them is how “INDIVIDUAL” wellbeing initiatives are failing not those that are done with the team in a group which is practically what we always said at PeopleNotTech. Psychological Safety is a group dynamic, the performance we seek is a group dynamic, and the way people are able to perform their work depends on this group dynamic so why on earth would we even dream of resolving any of those at an individual level?

The science of well-being is well documented and eminently researched - if nothing else, the fact that gratitude has the power to rewire neural pathways to diminish depression and rebuild one’s ability to have a positive outlook on life is absolutely enough but many other strategies are effective and necessary;