Human Debt™
Let's be clear once more: this whole "return to the office" (RTO) charade is absolute insanity. In this (exceptionally indignant and mercifully short) episode of our Secret Society for Human Work Advocates and Human Debt Fighters Podcast, Dr. Allessandria Pollizzi and I break it down in much...
I’m very lucky. I get to speak to incredible people who tirelessly think and feel all day. Some of these conversations are recorded and you can find them in our podcasts. Here’s what you may have missed on there of late: Karen Ferris and I spoke about her new “Be Remarkable” book on resilience...
FinTech / Emotional Banking 1.0
I've been trying to avoid joining the "Is Agile dead?" conversation that pops up repeatedly, as it has once again on LinkedIn in recent months. It's tempting to get caught up in this debate, but it happens so frequently. Let's be honest—whenever there's a major change or new initiative in a...
(Cross posted to both newsletters if you're both in Technology and HR Leadership) Can you believe it? They have a name for it all. The unfitting. The eternal hardship. The awkwardness. The uncertainty that we ever do the exact right thing or worse, the inability to do but the exact right thing....
Isn’t life quieter when I’m not "in your ear" moaning about the lack of Agile and the lack of care about the roaring HumanDebt like I used to do THREE times a week a few months ago but barely once every few weeks nowadays? You’re welcome :) Is this blessed (semi) silence from my part caused by...
Hey y’all - long time no talk, loads happened so grab a cuppa so we have a heart-to-heart - (if you subscribe to both newsletters you'll see this in two copies, apologies, but I assure you that it will be back to different (and hopefully less personal and dramatic!) content next week. Let me...
A detailed public account of one of the most severe incidents we experienced is temporarily withheld due to ongoing legal proceedings. The case involves documented misconduct, institutional failures, and harm inflicted during a period of targeted harassment and extreme trauma, all of which...
“Leadership Skills! Come buy your leadership skills here! AI-proof/ML-enabled/McK-sanctioned/visionary-du-jour-inspired packaged for insta-leadership right here!” Let’s face it, you can’t walk the corridors of Canary Wharf or the trendy Barbados new ad-hoc WeWorks without being lured by some...
If anyone missed me, I apologise for the silence. We launched not one, not two, but seven different podcasts at TechLedCulture, and invitations have gone out for three more extraordinary hosts to join us. We can not wait to unveil all we’ve been to. If you haven’t subscribed to them, please do...
Human Debt™
If anyone missed me, I apologise for the silence. We launched not one, not two, but seven different podcasts at TechLedCulture, and invitations have gone out for three more extraordinary hosts to join us. We can not wait to unveil all we’ve been to. If you haven’t subscribed to them, please do...
Sigh - here we go. (Cross-posted BTW, please bare with the duplicates) Read this, please, because we all need to do something
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.
