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by tonyrice 25 days ago
Thanks for your feedback. I realize that this is truly a complex subject and the framing of that really drives the direction of where my thought train is.

My ultimate thinking was that having awareness on emotional and cognitive signals correlating with business decisions made regardless of them can paint a deeper picture of how emotions impact the business.

It's a bit difficult to negate emotion in business but there's a strong pattern of people attempting to do that. Ignoring the signals don't make them go away, they just turn into something deeper.

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You've intrigued me, I leafed through your websites to see what you're up to :)

I think there is an interesting and useful case for detecting things like burnout, I like the example you cited.

I think some employers would love that, to know what's really happening at the ground level of operations, in a digestible way.

There's a huge disconnect between the C suite and pretty much everyone else. Closing that gap is always helpful.

But I think it puts employees at an extremely severe disadvantage, and they will rightfully hate it: These signals generate another mark that can be used against them. That's a pretty serious concern you'd have to resolve. If you have an employee that is burning out every time you make a decision, it's tempting for some people to fire the outlier, you know?