"Strategy is a commodity; execution is an art." (Peter Drucker)

My strategy was clear: a weekly newsletter on people sustainability — the one topic nobody else covers.

People sustainability means running your workforce like any finite resource: without depleting it. People aren't a cost to optimise. They're a regenerative asset: energy, skills, health, trust. Spend them faster than you renew them, and you're not managing a workforce — you're liquidating one.

Why does it matter? Because workforces don't fail loudly. They fail slowly. Quiet attrition. Disengagement caught two quarters too late. Skills eroding while everyone's too busy to learn. The winners of the AI decade won't be the fastest adopters — they'll be the ones whose people are still standing when the dust settles.

So the strategy was there. The execution wasn't. Last post: 5 October 2025.

I failed my 10,000 subscribers, and I apologise.

What I didn't expect: ten times more messages asking why I stopped than I ever imagined. You're the reason I'm back.

New rule going forward: one idea per issue. Lighter. Sharper. Weekly. Perfection is the enemy of good.

The comeback release: the 2026 HR Trends & Priorities heatmap

Every year, I read the annual outlooks of the major HR research houses — AIHR, BCG, David Green, Deloitte, Gartner, i4cp, McKinsey, McLean, Mercer and SHRM. This year, I went beyond reading: I mapped every published trend verbatim into a single framework — 10 publishers, 20 themes, 64 trends, full traceability.

→ Download the full analysis here

And the heatmap is only the opening move. Over the next three weeks, a trilogy takes the analysis deeper:

Part 1 — The Signal. What ten publishers actually said about 2026 — measured, mapped, and traceable to the word.

Part 2 — The Noise. Who profits from the forecast — and why this loud consensus should make you suspicious.

Part 3 — The Filter. The method that separates the trends worth funding from the trends worth ignoring.

See you next week for Part 1. This time, I'll execute.

— Tanguy