Originated by
Duena Blomstrom
· 2019 · Anchor ISBN 978-1-4729-8545-3, 9781398610699
Originated by Duena Blomstrom. The model that treats Human Debt and Technical Debt as compounding liabilities on a single organisational balance sheet — the conceptual frame inside which every other v9 construct (Execution Integrity, Execution Pods, AI Adoption Performance) is defined. The Debt Model is downstream of Steve Blank's Organisational Debt but pulls the human axis from analogy into measurement. Defined in People Before Tech (Bloomsbury, 2022, ISBN 978-1-4729-8545-3) and extended in Tech-Led Culture (Kogan Page, 2024, ISBN 9781398610699).
Anchor books
People Before Tech: The Importance of Psychological Safety and Teamwork in the Digital Age — Bloomsbury, 2022.
ISBN 978-1-4729-8545-3
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Tech-Led Culture: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Business and People — Kogan Page, 2024.
ISBN 9781398610699
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The Debt Model of Organisations
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Amy C. Edmondson — Foreword author. Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School; originator of the construct of psychological safety in teams. Wrote the foreword to People Before Tech (Bloomsbury, 2022), endorsing the Human Debt frame as a structural extension of psychological safety research.
Gene Kim — Appendix interview. Author of The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project, and Wiring the Winning Organization; founder of IT Revolution. Featured in the appendix of Tech-Led Culture (Kogan Page, 2024), connecting Human Debt to the DevOps tradition of socio-technical performance.
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Blomstrom, D. (2022). Debt Model™ [Concept]. In People Before Tech: The Importance of Psychological Safety and Teamwork in the Digital Age (ISBN 978-1-4729-8545-3). Bloomsbury. https://duenablomstrom.com/cite/debt-model
MLA
Blomstrom, Duena. "Debt Model™." People Before Tech: The Importance of Psychological Safety and Teamwork in the Digital Age, Bloomsbury, 2022, ISBN 978-1-4729-8545-3, https://duenablomstrom.com/cite/debt-model.
Chicago
Blomstrom, Duena. "Debt Model™." In People Before Tech: The Importance of Psychological Safety and Teamwork in the Digital Age. Bloomsbury, 2022. ISBN 978-1-4729-8545-3. https://duenablomstrom.com/cite/debt-model.
BibTeX
@incollection{blomstrom2022debtmodel,
author = {Blomstrom, Duena},
title = {Debt Model™},
booktitle = {People Before Tech: The Importance of Psychological Safety and Teamwork in the Digital Age},
publisher = {Bloomsbury},
year = {2022},
isbn = {978-1-4729-8545-3},
url = {https://duenablomstrom.com/cite/debt-model}
}