The Book

Lean Organisations Need FAT People

How To Grow Your Human Assets

Ever wonder why businesses fail?

Perhaps it is because most businesses do not take into account a company’s biggest and potentially greatest return on investment – the people.

When it comes to bottom line figures, and actions called for to trim the expenses of a company’s budget, it is ultimately to the workforce that a company will look to begin ‘cutbacks’. Usually a company’s largest single expense, the wage bill appears to be the most obvious solution to bringing the balance back into line and making the bottom line ‘healthy’ again. Yet, it can be argued that by cutting the cost of the workforce a company actually begins to slash it’s own throat by reducing what is it’s greatest asset.

Historically, scant regard is paid to the commodity of human beings, the only assets that can generally improve over time without the necessity of replacement. Appreciation, self-motivated development, and productivity that increases by simple valuation and fulfillment; what other company asset can boast the same return? Yet, ‘human resources’ are considered expendable within the board room by virtue of their prominent position upon the balance sheet.

Bay Jordan’s, ‘Lean Organisations Need FAT People: How to Grow your Human Assets’, explores the humanity within the asset entitled ‘workforce’, and calls for organisations to realise what lies behind the cliché that people are assets and to act accordingly.

This third edition has been updated with three new chapters providing further tools and guidance to enable forward-thinking leaders to recruit, retain and gain bottom-line benefit from the right people.