This week in the (only properly functional - I’m conscious you may not get this due to a massive LinkedIn issue) newsletter - Chasing Psychological Safety we talked -again- about Servant Leadership and how it’s high time. Despite both articles clearly stating things such as:
Execution Debt
Psychological Safety Research
This week in the Chasing Psychological Safety Newsletter we wrote about DIY Psychological Safety. It's not the first time, we often say the best thing you can do for your teams is to obsess about PS enough that you use our software or software like ours that has a way to smartly gather data...
Execution Debt
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If you’ve read me for a while, you may have noticed that my tone used to be (even more?) caustic, ironic, indignant and grandiose - it made me think - have I progressed or regressed to sound less up-in-arms these days? Is my outlook wiser or more impression managing as I don’t want to look naive...
Psychological Safety Research
FinTech / Emotional Banking 1.0
I just realised while writing this today, that this is episode 100 of this Newsletter. I can’t sufficiently thank you all for reading it, caring and making me feel safe enough to keep writing it. We’re an awesome team. Today, I wanted to talk about passion. The connection between passion and...
Psychological Safety Research
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I have been wondering lately how come the concept of HumanDebt™ (as the people equivalent to the Technical Debt) resonates so deeply with so many people. The best I can come up with is that, aside from the clarity and familiarity of the technical term, it just rings true when we simply apply...
Psychological Safety Research
FinTech / Emotional Banking 1.0
***Warning the following can read very self-serving but it’s really just our reminder of how fortunate we are on what is a periodic self-reflective Agile audit we hope everyone does at times, so if you just wanted to read a rant or some solid practical tips, maybe come back next week.*** This...
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.
The primary research behind Human Debt, Execution Integrity, and the Debt Model — longform analysis that goes deeper than the frameworks themselves.
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