We can all agree that the value of self-reporting, in particular when it comes to topics that are traditionally seen as taboo or mired in ill-understood and antiquated convention is at best questionable so whenever I see surveys regarding workers’ mental health, I have a tendency to dig into the...
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My extreme admiration for techies in general and "agilists" in particular, is no surprise. I’ve written about Technology and Agile Superheroes for years now and I am firmly of the belief that it is technologists that our hopes for better work culture and less HumanDebt rest with, and not anyone...
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As I was saying yesterday, here we are at a place where we think we moved mountains in the workplace, but instead, we have #EmotionalSupportWaterBottle - what more clear expression of the size of the HumanDebt and how deep the EQ crisis really is?
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A term I found blood curling was doing the rounds last week - “emotional support water bottle”. If it had been some marketing ploy from a water company wanting to capitalise on the self-care trend I would understand it. Still, on closer inspection, it isn’t any one type of bottle or brand nor...
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You may have “read me” over the past few years bang on and on about how urgently we need to audit and then reduce HumanDebt™ and I feel we’re starting to see the proof of how, if we want to do that, we must all urgently learn from the DevOps movement as it encouragingly is the only worthwhile...