The longer it takes to land the new truths of the workplace and the longer we confuse matters with wooden language and desperation to establish proprietary frameworks, the further we are from performance. It’s that simple.  These new truths are: 9-5 office time is not returning in tech. Move on. People are not less productive at…Read More

The longer it takes to land the new truths of the workplace and the longer we confuse matters with wooden language and desperation to establish proprietary frameworks, the further we are from performance. It’s that simple.  These new truths are: 9-5 office time is not returning in tech. Move on. People are not less productive at…Read More

Warning – super long and possibly contentious. Once our new podcast “People AND Tech” (finally!) -word inserted to convey frustration with the speed!:)- is out, you’ll hear Dave (Ballantyne – VP of Engineering at Evora Global, my husband and my co-host) and I discuss this theme that Bryan Finster instigated with this observation: While his…Read More

<This article was originally published on the www. duenablomstrom.com website here> Explaining the need for the Human Work has changed over the last year. I’d like to believe that there has been a marked difference in the way people are receiving it and that it is a good sign judging by what we see in the…Read More

Explaining the need for the Human Work has changed over the last year. I’d like to believe that there has been a marked difference in the way Unsurprisingly, I’m big on retros. I’m big on any time for self-improvement, reflection and learning, but retros in particular. I think looking back is often more valuable than…Read More

Back in the day (aka a couple of years back when I first started on the journey of exclusively figuring out how to lower HumanDebt and enable humanity in tech), I spent quite a lot of time being up in arms about “the people people” and how they shouldn’t have let all this debt accumulate…Read More

Let’s presume who works from where were resolved. Crystal clear, set in stone, no ambiguity. How wonderful would life be? Team/collaborative work when we are best primed for it in joyous, fun, creative and innovative meetings of psychologically safe and tight-knit teams in inspiring collaborative environments and individual work when we are mid-flow whenever and…Read More

Hello everyone, long time no write! Hope you enjoyed the break 🙂 Who knew launching a unicorn search (companies I can rid of HumanDebt™ and help win at culture and therefore performance so I showcase them in my 4th book) and editing my “Tech-Led Culture” book was going to be this intensive?!? Not to mention…Read More