I wrote some weeks ago a paper about considering people as the main source of creating value. My belief: people constitute the heart of the organization; a people-focused organization is definitely more efficient.

In fact, who initiates and drives the organization? Who promotes and assures values and beliefs inside the organization? Who conducts change, shares ideas, initiates innovation? The answer is: people. Give people the opportunity to get involved and they will surprise you. Let them drive your company through innovation and introduce you new ways of creating value: be listening.
I would underline an interesting writing from the PriceWaterhouseCoopers CEO ‘s study: “[…] This means enabling employees to drive change, rather than using change to drive them; making them the owners and creators – not the targets – of change.” (PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 2007). I believe that a people-focused company considering people’s interests, passions and fulfillment would naturally optimize its value architecture, value proposition and thus its global revenue.

Ok I should admit that I am in favor of an elitist policy (this is another debate), I definitely prefer an organization hiring slowly but efficiently. We usually want to work with people we know they will just agree and follow our ideas. We are afraid of people introducing a different way of thinking or people simply better than us. In fact, we should not hesitate to work with someone better than us. It is not a confrontation but a combination: competences are made to be complementary.

What about money? Money is here, people want money and we need to consider it. But that is not all. Some companies are really profitable, what does it mean? On a financial way? Ok. It is really expensive to hire the bests and take care of them, however a successful organization is also profitable on a let’s-say social way. Consider people as human and not just as resources, this is a long term strategy.

My way of considering success? Keep being innovative, work with the bests, respect people and give them the opportunity to surprise you.