Weekly Pulse
A brief, structured sentiment check completed once a week by every person. The lowest-friction instrument in the Human Heartbeat, its job is to catch collective sentiment shifts weeks before they would surface through any other channel. It is a screening mechanism, not a root-cause analysis tool: it tells you that something is shifting and where, and points to the conversations that need to happen. (Strategy as Infrastructure, Ch 15)
Why it matters
The weekly pulse is the most accessible starting point in the Human Heartbeat — it requires no integration with external systems and can begin generating honest signals from day one. Over time it establishes a baseline that makes anomalies visible: a team whose pulse drops from 8/10 to 6/10 over three weeks is flagging something the Machine Heartbeat cannot see. The system can detect that the people working on one initiative are energised while the people on another are losing confidence — and surface that divergence weeks before it shows up in any other channel.
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