The goal of people optimization is surprisingly not that common of a goal - at least overtly. Part of the issue we've found, is  that  for whatever reason people make some kind of value judgment that you can't optimize people  or at least shouldn't be overt in doing this (Come on!).  Other perspectives seem to center around a belief that somehow this violates the golden rule - … so you don't optimize you  choose the best people you can or you treat people right and they'll treat you right or you can't motivate people they have to motivate themselves or my human resource manager is dealing with that using Talent Management and on and on … (Again, come on!)  I wouldn't argue with any one of these, except perhaps the HR one, but just like you can't  "eat  right" by just eating bananas,  optimizing people,  while not overly complex conceptually is certainly complex enough that it involves  a number of variables  with which a business leader needs to be deal.

We believe that as a management focus that the focus on people optimization not only has validity, but  that it is the most  powerful way of  ensuring you make the right people decisions and as a result optimize the performance of your organization.