Originated by
Duena Blomstrom
· 2024 · Anchor ISBN 978-1-4729-8545-3, 9781398610699
Originated by Duena Blomstrom. A governance model that treats long-horizon stewardship — care for both human and machine participants in an organisational system — as a primary design constraint, on equal footing with shareholder return and operational efficiency. Maternal Spirit Governance operationalises the cultural conditions under which Empathy Architecture and Convergent Intelligence can produce sustained outcomes rather than short-term execution wins. Rooted in the Debt Model of Organisations from People Before Tech (Bloomsbury, 2022, ISBN 978-1-4729-8545-3) and developed further 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
· Book page
Tech-Led Culture: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Business and People — Kogan Page, 2024.
ISBN 9781398610699
· Book page
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Psychological safety in the digital age
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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.
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Blomstrom, D. (2022). Maternal Spirit Governance™ [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/maternal-spirit-governance
MLA
Blomstrom, Duena. "Maternal Spirit Governance™." 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/maternal-spirit-governance.
Chicago
Blomstrom, Duena. "Maternal Spirit Governance™." 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/maternal-spirit-governance.
BibTeX
@incollection{blomstrom2022maternalspiritgovernance,
author = {Blomstrom, Duena},
title = {Maternal Spirit Governance™},
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/maternal-spirit-governance}
}