The one-page people read every CEO should be able to do in five minutes.
Most growing companies cannot produce a single sheet showing what's happening in their workforce. The board notices.
Walk into a board meeting at a 150-person company and ask the CEO for a one-page summary of headcount, attrition, hiring velocity, and total cost. Most can't produce it without two days of pulling data from three systems. By then the question has moved on.
If the CEO can't read the people page in five minutes, the people page isn't real. It's data trapped in tools nobody syncs.
What goes on the page
Six numbers and three trend lines. Total headcount, split by function. Total comp cost, split by function. Voluntary attrition rate, last 12 months. Open requisitions and time-to-fill. Forecasted hires for the next two quarters and what they cost. Senior level distribution — how many directors, VPs, ICs.
Three trends underneath, not five — readable: headcount over the last 8 quarters, attrition over the last 4, average tenure of new hires over the last 4. That's it.
Why nobody has it
Not because the data doesn't exist. Because nobody owns the page. The HRIS has half of it, the recruiter's ATS has the other half, Finance has the comp side, and nobody is responsible for putting them on one sheet every quarter.
Naming the owner is the unlock. We typically build the page during the rebuild, name the operations or finance person who refreshes it, and lock the format. After the rebuild, it shows up in the board pack on a known cadence with no one having to ask for it.