A “Thank You” to Agile Superheroes

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Duena Blomstrom

Duena Blomstrom

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A “Thank You” to Agile Superheroes

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

  • 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
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  • This week’s articles on the Chasing Psychological Safety newsletter are all about the mental health and wellbeing of our superheroes.

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This week’s articles on the Chasing Psychological Safety newsletter are all about the mental health and wellbeing of our superheroes.

I talk a lot about Superheroes. And I do think there are quite a few of those. Thankfully. Every time I write about what they go through, I get some pushback “Stop it with the personality cult, no one needs the black turtleneck and assholish behaviour” and I can see where that comes from but it’s not at all what I am talking about or who I see. The Superheroes I sing the praises of are almost the antithesis of that and largely unsung. I’ve been writing about them for ages and they still astound me every day. They could so easily spend their corporate lives doing what everyone else does - coasting, not caring- but they don’t, they invest heart and they fight for what they think is right for their teams and the company. It’s a collection of constant miniature heroic acts.

When this compounds with having to keep the heart of Agile in the face of opposition, the enormity of the awesomeness is even clearer.

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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.