The Wall Street Journal bestseller!
Learn to unlock the potential of your employees and colleagues with this definitive resource for people management
People Strategy: How to Invest in People and Make Culture Your Competitive Advantage provides readers with a powerful framework in which to develop high-performing teams, increase employee motivation, and use data to build an inviting and effective company culture.
Author Jack Altman, cofounder and CEO of Lattice, an award-winning HR and performance management platform, shows you how to:
- Establish the values that will form the bedrock of your organization
- Develop feedback processes that help employees feel heard, supported, and equipped to succeed
- Monitor the breadth and depth of employee engagement in your company
- Use the data and insights created by your People Strategy to drive business results
Perfect for executives, managers, and human resource professionals, People Strategy also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone with even an interest in how to develop, nurture, and unlock the potential of their employees and colleagues.
Introduction: Why Your Company Should Put People First 1
Chapter 1 The Three Pillars of Company Culture 9
Chapter 2 Hiring for Culture and Performance 21
Chapter 3 Performance and the Importance of Feedback 41
Chapter 4 Building Engagement 77
Chapter 5 Prioritizing Growth 105
Chapter 6 Leveraging Data 133
Conclusion: The Power of People 147
Appendix: Turning Strategy into Action 161
About the Author 167
Acknowledgments 169
Index 171
Praise for People Strategy
"People leaders: make your CEO read this book! Jack makes a crystal-clear case for investing in people as a primary component of business strategy. This book is the key to getting the buy in to strategically invest in people and unlock the culture you want."
—Heather Doshay, VP, People at Webflow
"Through his experiences in building and leading a high-growth HRTech company and partnering closely with People teams across industries, Jack captures the spirit and tactics of building resilient performance cultures. The takeaways here will help any business leader who cares about people, culture, and performance more fully realize their potential."
—Katelin Holloway, People and Culture Executive, Founding Partner at Seven Seven Six
"The team you build is the company you build. No matter how many times people hear that business is all about people, the average business leader still somehow underweights its importance. Jack's book takes a close look at the craft of strategic HR leaders, and the role they can help play in building generational companies."
—Keith Rabois, Technology Executive and Investor, General Partner at Founders Fund
The rise of technology has meant that today's employees are more valuable than ever, and they have more choice than ever before. To stay competitive for top talent, companies need to adopt people-centric HR practices that focus on creating meaningful work experiences, not just providing paychecks.
In People Strategy: How to Invest in People and Make Culture Your Competitive Advantage, CEO and Co-founder of Lattice, Jack Altman, delivers a unique framework for executive, HR, and team leaders to use best practices and data that build company culture, increase employee motivation, and drive high-performing teams.
This book offers readers a step-by-step guide to establishing the values that will be the bedrock of their culture, shows the feedback components that help employees feel heard, supported, and enabled to succeed, and explains how to ensure their People Strategy is showing measurable business results.
Featuring best practices and examples from Salesforce, Stripe, and Google, People Strategy helps people leaders, executives, and founders build a culture that gets the best out of each of their employees.
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Biografisk notat
Jack Altman is the CEO and cofounder of Lattice, a performance management and employee engagement platform ranked 22nd on the 2020 Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list. Jack has spent over 10 years in the tech industry working in and along-side a range of leading global companies and is a contributing writer for Forbes Tech Council, Entrepreneur, as well as a wide range of HR publications, the host of the soon-to-be-released video series "Uniquely Led," and frequent HR industry event speaker.