
Organizational Optimization Through People Optimization It’s quite insightful to comb through Fortune magazine’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For and compare each one to the top financial and growth performers in their industry. Interestingly enough, they are either at or near the top of their industry's list. I’m convinced there is not only a correlation but a cause and effect relationship. Some argue that the causal relationship goes from success to taking care of their people. Personally, I’ve never experienced such a relationship, nor have I read any research that supports such a claim. Let’s look at the more obvious relationship—achieving organizational optimization through people optimization. What does it mean to optimize an organization? Let’s start with the central point in this phrase—optimization or optimize. To optimize is to make as effective, perfect or useful as possible or to make the best of. I don’t think it would be too much of a stre...