Techies Must Shake Their Impostor Syndrome Regarding the Human Work

My extreme admiration for techies in general and "agilists" in particular, is no surprise. I’ve written about Technology and Agile Superheroes for years now and I am firmly of the belief that it is technologists that our hopes for better work culture and less HumanDebt rest with, and not anyone...

Duena Blomstrom

Duena Blomstrom

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Techies Must Shake Their Impostor Syndrome Regarding the Human Work

My extreme admiration for techies in general and "agilists" in particular, is no surprise. I’ve written about Technology and Agile Superheroes for years now and I am firmly of the belief that it is technologists that our hopes for better work culture and less HumanDebt rest with, and not anyone else in the business.

Dear CTO - Yes You Can! Start Eradicating the HumanDebt

  • Dear CTO - Yes You Can! Start Eradicating the HumanDebt
  • The Vanishing Superheroes, the Organisation and the HumanDebt
  • The New People Happiness and Performance Department

The Vanishing Superheroes, the Organisation and the HumanDebt

The New People Happiness and Performance Department

That said, beautifully courageous as these Superhero techies are, there is one area where their modesty extremely holds them back and that happens to be precisely the bit where we need them the most: the human work.

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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.