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Oliver Buchannon
Chris Hagood

With a robust background in leadership roles, I specialize in talent management and organizational culture, currently leading as the Managing Principal at AstutEdge. My mission is to streamline performance and employee experience through innovative talent management strategies. AstutEdge's culture of putting people first resonates with my commitment to fostering environments where employees and strategies thrive in unison.

Issue 80

Issue 80

When Vocabulary Masks Direction

Mar 12, 2026

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10 min read

Issue 79

Issue 79

Decision Avoidance Systems: How Orgs Design Around Ownership

Mar 5, 2026

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10 min read

Issue 78

Issue 78

What Leaders Are Outsourcing Without Realizing It

Feb 26, 2026

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10 min read

Issue 77

Issue 77

HR as Risk Absorber: when the function becomes the shock buffer

Feb 19, 2026

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10 min read

Issue 76

Issue 76

The Professionalization Gap: When Signaling Replaces Capability

Feb 12, 2026

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10 min read

Issue 75

Issue 75

Culture Statements Don’t Survive Cost Pressure

Feb 5, 2026

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8 min read

Issue 74

Issue 74

The Feedback Debt

Jan 29, 2026

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10 min read

Issue 73

Issue 73

Psych Safety Still Requires Performance

Jan 22, 2026

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10 min read

Issue 72

Issue 72

Talent Hoarding Revisited

Jan 15, 2026

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9 min read

Issue 71

Issue 71

Hiring Freezes are Capability Decisions

Jan 8, 2026

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10 min read

Issue 70

Issue 70

Pressure + Responsibility - Authority = Broken Managers

Jan 2, 2026

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6 min read

Issue 69

Issue 69

Busyness vs. Productivity: When Motion Replaces Progress

Dec 23, 2025

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7 min read

Issue 68

Issue 68

Why “Business as Usual” Is a Leadership Failure

Dec 18, 2025

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9 min read

Issue 67

Issue 67

TW for SHRM Stans

Dec 11, 2025

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13 min read

Issue 66

Issue 66

Stability is a Leadership Responsibility, Not a Luxury

Dec 4, 2025

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9 min read

Issue 65

Issue 65

Stretch Assignments or Skill Exploitation?

Nov 27, 2025

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7 min read

Issue 64

Issue 64

Overextension is Not a Performance Strategy

Nov 20, 2025

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10 min read

Issue 63

Issue 63

"The Simple Sabotage Field Manual"

Nov 13, 2025

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8 min read

Issue 62

Issue 62

Nearly 1/2 of meetings are unnecessary (per study)

Nov 6, 2025

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7 min read

Issue 61

Issue 61

FYI: Layoffs of approx. 65,400 people were announced since Monday

Oct 30, 2025

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7 min read

Issue 60

Issue 60

Silence is expensive

Oct 23, 2025

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9 min read

Issue 59

Issue 59

Oct 16, 2025

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9 min read

Issue 58

Issue 58

Proximity Bias is Subtle but Pervasive

Oct 9, 2025

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8 min read

Issue 57

Issue 57

Skills Inflation

Oct 2, 2025

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10 min read

Surveys!

Surveys!

Oct 1, 2025

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3 min read

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