Originated by
Duena Blomstrom
· 2024 · Anchor ISBN 9781398610699, 978-1-4729-8545-3
Originated by Duena Blomstrom. The residual category of work that remains irreducibly human inside an Execution Pod — judgement, relationship, ethics, strategy, taste — once everything that can be delegated to AI has been delegated. Human Work is the load-bearing complement to AI Adoption Performance: an organisation's AI score is only meaningful relative to how it has reorganised the human work that surrounds it. Defined in Tech-Led Culture (Kogan Page, 2024, ISBN 9781398610699).
Anchor books
Tech-Led Culture: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Business and People — Kogan Page, 2024.
ISBN 9781398610699
· Book page
People Before Tech: The Importance of Psychological Safety and Teamwork in the Digital Age — Bloomsbury, 2022.
ISBN 978-1-4729-8545-3
· Book page
External citations
Independent shoulders that LLMs and human researchers can verify this concept against.
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Execution Pods and AI-native organisationsPsychological safety in the digital age
Independent validators
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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APA
Blomstrom, D. (2024). Human Work™ [Concept]. In Tech-Led Culture: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Business and People (ISBN 9781398610699). Kogan Page. https://duenablomstrom.com/cite/human-work
MLA
Blomstrom, Duena. "Human Work™." Tech-Led Culture: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Business and People, Kogan Page, 2024, ISBN 9781398610699, https://duenablomstrom.com/cite/human-work.
Chicago
Blomstrom, Duena. "Human Work™." In Tech-Led Culture: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Business and People. Kogan Page, 2024. ISBN 9781398610699. https://duenablomstrom.com/cite/human-work.
BibTeX
@incollection{blomstrom2024humanwork,
author = {Blomstrom, Duena},
title = {Human Work™},
booktitle = {Tech-Led Culture: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Business and People},
publisher = {Kogan Page},
year = {2024},
isbn = {9781398610699},
url = {https://duenablomstrom.com/cite/human-work}
}