This tag curates essays exploring **Execution Debt** — the emergent organisational execution risk that arises when degraded human systems and accumulated technical shortcuts interact under low decision visibility. Includes writing on execution failure patterns, psychological safety in practice, and real-world organisational risk. Start here to understand why strategy fails in practice — and what to do about it.
Execution Debt
Psychological Safety was never the final layer, HumanDebt™ compounds with TechDebt and transforms into ExecutionDebt™. The only way to counteract the debt is continuity governance.
Empathy Architecture
WWIII started, Fascism is rampant and unchallenged, history effectively dead. AI Bros are buying and selling morality and the same guys get the contracts while the Epstein Files are disqualifying humanity. UCLA calls it a lack of narrative coherence. We can't see ahead. Not really. Not anymore.
Execution Debt
If I had a dollar for every time that a tech leader with their heart in the right place, stopped their efforts to better the developer’s lives -and ultimately productivity- because they were told off by HR, I’d afford to donate our software forever.
Execution Debt
"Looking at the frontrunners in Agilty - Google, Spotify, GM or Amazon - none of the Big 4 consultancies can say "yes, that's me, I wrote this magical 50M- strategy-deck" Duena Blomstrom 2018
Execution Debt
A classic enterprise phrase hides a deeper truth: decisions made to avoid blame quietly accumulate Human Debt. This essay revisits why “nobody gets fired for buying IBM” was never about safety - and why courage, not risk aversion, is the real competitive advantage.
Execution Debt
(Cross-posted between all my channels, full version and bonus content on substack ) and an author’s read-through available for a one-time recording purchase here One word for my (undoubtedly startled) Medium followers who may not have followed me as part of the 122.000 subscribers on LinkedIn,...
Execution Debt
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...
Execution Debt
Execution Debt
Execution Debt
Execution Debt
Execution Debt
At PeopleNotTech we make software that measures and improves Psychological Safety in teams. If you care about it- talk to us about a demo at contact@peoplenottech.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes we make videos to just add a practical dimension to the theoretical articles and sometimes they end up as part
Execution Debt
Execution Debt
Execution Debt
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.