Development, Intangible Assets and Leadership

Managing With a Conscience

Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

Sonnenberg believes that leaders who have a jaded view of intangible assets will never make the commitment required to reap their full potential. Sonnenberg discusses at length, nine critical success factors that need to be built into the organization: Passion that develops commitment to the organization’s mission, values, and goals.

Management

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A Four-wheel-drive Diamond in the Rough Leadership Model

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The following guest post is from James Clawson , one of those external instructors we partner with in a program we’re doing for a global, Fortune 500 client called “Change Leadership”. Theories of leadership abound to the point of confusion. Given the shape of the model, let's call this the “diamond model of leadership.”

Leadership

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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. Most intangible assets are real but invisible, and the most important invisible ability is the ability (or, perhaps better said, the probability) to collaborate. So, the question is: What are the most critical intangible assets in your company?

Intangible Assets

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It’s Easy to Lose Sight of the Things That You Can’t See

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MAY 25, 2021

Trust takes a long time to develop but can be lost in the blink of an eye. Trust makes relationships strong and effective. It increases security, reduces inhibitions and defensiveness, and frees people to share their feelings and dreams. What’s more important than being able to look in the mirror and like what you see?

Reputation

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Why Leaders Are Still So Hesitant to Invest in New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Today, the majority of market value is made up of intangible assets (networks, platforms, intellectual property, customer relationships, big data) more than physical assets. In fact, it’s not even close: intangible assets make up over 80% of the S&P 500’s market value — a complete reversal from 1975.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). westend61/Getty Images.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

That includes identifying your current mix of assets and the business model that your asset portfolio creates. For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social?

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point. HR strategy is an expertise that takes years to fully develop.”.

CFO

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What VW Didn’t Understand About Trust

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Though the story is still developing, there are a few big, interconnected lessons to be drawn from what we know so far. Decades ago, a company’s market value was nearly equivalent to its tangible assets—buildings, machinery, materials, financial capital, and so on. Being clean and green has real, bottom-line value.

Intangible Assets

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The most forward-thinking companies are developing new business models to create value from these kinds of information exchanges. (2) 2) Develop open multiple multi-sided relationships: Altruism or openness alone will not give rise to ready access to the diversity of data required to understand the predictive future.

Company

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What Workers and Companies Should Know About the Republican Tax Bills

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

corporations to accumulate assets in those affiliates (now estimated at $2.6 The legislation would replace the tax on profits that are repatriated with a low-rate tax on annual profits attributable to the intangible assets of their foreign affiliates, impose a one-time transition tax on the stock of accrued foreign profits of U.S.

Company

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Contrast Walmart’ $160 billion of hard assets for its $300 billion valuation against Facebook’s $9 billion dollars of hard assets for its $500 billion valuation. The economic purpose of these intangible investments is no different than that of an industrial company’s factories and buildings.

Company

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The most forward-thinking companies are developing new business models to create value from these kinds of information exchanges. (2) 2) Develop open multiple multi-sided relationships: Altruism or openness alone will not give rise to ready access to the diversity of data required to understand the predictive future.

Company

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What Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB Know About Collaborating with Customers

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Through our research on network-centric businesses and our experience advising hundreds of companies we have developed a framework for understanding customer affinity. Each has moved beyond allowing customers to design their own products, to share value by acting as a platform to promote the customer networks’ talents and assets.

CRM

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The U.S. Needs Tax Reform, Not Tax Cuts

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

presidential administration and congressional leadership have spent months talking about tax reform. Getting tax reform done requires strong political leadership, significant input from government staffers with technical expertise, and development of a public consensus of the need for change. The current U.S.

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