Welcome to the introductory page of the People Decision Excellence digital book. This digital book, on the AGILEdge website, focuses on issues, ideas and tools for improving the selection, development and leadership decisions made regarding the most important resource in most organizations, people.

Consider the following:

• People decisions are normally what determine the level of success a leader will have.

• Effective people decision-making is both and art and a science and increasingly can become more of a predicative science.

Do you have the best people doing what their best at?

How effective are your "people" decisions?

  Making the right decisions regarding the WHO in your organizations involves two often poorly done but common sense activities

• Choosing the right people for the right position/role.
• Ensuring that each person's competencies, skills and attitudes are a fit for high performance for their role in the organization.

Increasingly, these initiatives are labeled, Talent Management.  Although some of the academic descriptions of this common sense and necessary activity in any organization are over the top, it is undoubtedly a critical and necessary task for any successful leader. When you see an organization struggling with decline or mediocrity, it is also nearly always not present in any effective way. In these cases, the leader not only ignores a basic responsibility but creates incredible waste and a whole host of problems that they need to address daily normally with quick fixes and stop-gap measures.