The Greatest Secret in Organizational Development
We live in a day and time that has seen the founding and creation of many organizations. People are forming organizations almost every day. While this is great, few of these organizations will become great because of a focus on financial and productivity metrics rather than human factor metrics. The great organization must keep it’s focus on it’s people and how best to nurture their diverse talents. Peter Drucker talks about the knowledge worker and how it is important for companies to attract and keep knowledge workers. Business success in this time of tremendous upheavals will hinge largely on the quality of an organization’s people. That’s the greatest secret in organizational development.
People are an organization’s greatest asset. The organization must watch for clues to each employee’s natural talents and then position and develop each employee so that his or her talents are transformed into strengths. An organization’s strengths is not in its financial assets, not in its physical assets, not in its supplier lists or any other factor. An organization’s strength is in its people. High quality people, working on the basis of their strengths, are more valuable to an organization than any of its other resources.
By changing the way it selects, measures, develops, and channels the careers of its people, a great organization must builds itself around the strengths of each person. Such an organization becomes a lasting emblem of success in the community.
