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Why does the work you delegated keep coming back to your desk, and what do decision rights have to do with it?
The podcast that helps HR executives go beyond running the function and become business-first — the consequential leader your CEO builds the business with.
Because the top chair isn't an HR job. It's a brand new identity.
Here's the part you've probably already suspected. The day your job got bigger, when the deal was announced or the mandate widened or the CEO's ask changed, you quietly rewrote the job description of everyone who reports to you. You just never told them, because you didn't know you'd done it. You told your team what mattered now. What you didn't hand them was the authority to decide it. Priorities are a ranking of work that already exists; they can't carry a new decision into the room. That's why the retention grid comes back for a rebuild at 11pm, why the "one more pass" lands in your inbox at six in the morning, and why every review comes back clean while the work never leaves. Jackson Lynch and Scott Morris, two former CHROs, walk through where that work is actually sitting and why decision rights, not more effort, are what move it.
In this episode:
- Spot the exact decisions that should sit with your head of total rewards or talent, and the ones quietly routing back through you
- Replace inherited priorities with real decision rights: what each leader decides alone, what they check with you first, and what stays yours
- Set the boundary that makes delegation stick, so inside it you own the cost of a wrong call and outside it they do, even when they were right
If your best people keep handing the work back, this is the episode that tells you why, and hands you one move, for one person, you can make this week. Start there.
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This episode is for CHROs and HR executives working on decision rights, delegating decisions, moving decisions down, accountability versus priorities, and the CHRO mandate through M&A and periods of transition.
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