Execution Debt
Speaking of writing my upcoming book “Tech-led Culture” (which we were last week)- I find myself having to pull back quite a bit when it comes to tone. A book is not a place to be indignant. Neither is this newsletter in a sense by virtue of how open and public it is. So I set up this private...
As I was saying yesterday, if you fancy seeing some of my exclusive hard-hitting member content be it opinions or rants you can find it here: patreon.com/user?u=83255576 In today’s video, we’re speaking about the flip side of responsibility - the kind we all have to exhibit - personal...
Let me start by saying I’ve built a new destination for members-only content. It’s on Patreon and it is the next level after this. I will, of course, keep writing in these newsletters but I’ll reserve the juicy bit, the controversial parts and most of my boiling indignation for there. Expect “No...
As I’m getting deeper into writing for my upcoming book “Tech-led Culture” I find myself, once again, deploring how difficult it is to attempt to emulate hindsight and perspective when in the very middle of the history-making eye of the storm as we are now. I felt this way before when during the...
Today’s article was meant to be on a different topic but as I was researching for my new book yesterday I came across a new study that claims “Nearly half (46%) of employees say they wouldn’t recommend their company or their profession to their children or any young person they care about. An...
We have often spoken about the need to admit that the vast majority of workers have never quite recovered after the trauma of the pandemic. This is constantly and bizarrely overlooked in all industries and despite living and breathing people topics and speaking to tens of companies, we can’t...
I find it nothing short of astounding how willing we are to turn a blind eye to some horrendous things in the knowledge industry. There's so much that's common knowledge and we still carry on about our day trying to fit sideways around major elephants blocking the room and ignoring naked...
Today’s video is appealing to HR and it is straight from the heart. People need a people hero to establish the need for the human work and they need them yesterday. Over the past week, the terrifying events at Twitter (and Meta) are a lot worse than meets the eye. This calls for a major...
I was going to tell you all about my Elon indignation again on here but being that I already covered it twice this week and that given enough rope and time he’ll soon hang himself again, let’s ignore his actions that only suggest maybe he’s taking his belief that we live in a simulation to the...
In a world that’s crying out for heroes and feel-good stories, it’s little wonder someone like Elon Musk is capturing the imagination of so many and I was indeed expecting yesterday’s article to be unsavoury to them. What I didn’t expect was for their objection not to be encompassed in a defence...
No one reading this can possibly have escaped rumblings of the furore of the Twitter layoffs and everyone on LinkedIn seems to be discussing it so I won't repeat the background other than to say that within days of being acquired, Twitter has seen a wave of dismissal of seismic proportions in a...
Last week’s article about the acute need for cultural change seems to have resonated tremendously with a lot of people. That’s great news actually, it means we can all sense the urgency and that makes me hopeful for eventual momentum. Hopeful that eventually, we would have all agreed we have to...
Psychological Safety Research
As we were saying yesterday, we realised that, while the mental health crisis precipitated by the Covid trauma and the fundamental changes in the workplace continues, we can not ignore yet another crisis - that around the lack of emotional intelligence that we see in every organisation and at...
Unfortunately for all of us, no one comes out of formal education - irrespective of how extensive or on what topic it may have been- with any wealth of knowledge regarding the topic of emotions and behaviours. This hasn’t been too big of a hindrance in the “before times” when our work lives...
I wasn’t going to write today as I’m heading for IT Masters in Mexico City followed by a mini, overdue honeymoon but as the Mr is sat next to me in the lounge having had to log in to his own company’s system and check on an incident (perils of being married to a director of Microsoft...
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.