CAVEAT: This is not an ordinary book, it is a comprehensive and practical step-by-step blueprint for strategic people management. It brings out the details that make all the difference; it shows you how to be methodical and deliberate in positioning your people as true assets, delivering the value to make your organization sustainably high performing.The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place — GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The core objective of this work is to communicate with the reader; so I have made it very simple and very practical.People as assets: The purpose of an asset is to generate positive returns. If it does not generate positive returns, it is not an asset, period! In fact it may be a liability. At best, it is a hobby that gives sentimental satisfaction but is of no economic value.An asset must be carefully selected, valued, nurtured, enhanced, and retained in great condition. When an asset starts to consistently yield negative returns, a retool, reassign or release decision must be made. If you want to see your organization become a high performance organization, use this book as a playbook for getting the best out of your people by reorienting your mind to truly view them as assets. This book is a great practical working guide for boards of directors, CEOs, managers of teams and HR leads to maximize results from their people in a sustainable manner. To all employees; this book is your cheat sheet! It tells you all about everything your employers are looking for - all the way from recruitment to performance management and through your entire time in the organization. Everyone in the organization needs to read this book, so that they are all on the same page [pun unintended].This book calls out the strategic and the creative in you and in the philosophy of people management in the organization.