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.

• If you are in the U.S. or most of Europe, making the wrong people decision is remarkably expensive as it may be easy to get rid of truly bad performers- but that mediocre performer can pose certain risks (both real and imagined).

• In a rapidly changing world and market environment, picking the right investments to make in your people is key to creating and maintaining a high performing organization.

• Technology is having a huge impact on the cost-effectiveness of available alternatives both for selection and development of people.

• For many, competition for competencies and skills can come from those half way around the world who are more educated and cost 1/3 as much (or less). How does this impact people decisions locally?

• Selecting the wrong person is a very expensive proposition but it's commonly done.

• Interviews, even structured behavioral interviews, are not the best way alone for making the best selection.
  

This material focuses on ideas and tools to improve the quality and effectiveness of your people through selection and development activities.   Please feel free to register and contribute content either through comments or pages in this book.