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

Great Leadership By Dan

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.”

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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. Investors grapple daily in an effort to figure out how to value companies whose accounting assets — things like land, capital, products, and licenses — don't adequately express their true market value.

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

Harvard Business Review

Consider the dramatic shift in the types of assets that create market value. According to Ocean Tomo, a consulting firm focused on intellectual capital, physical assets (plant, property, and equipment) made up more than 80% of the market value of the S&P 500 in 1975. How much is changing?

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What VW Didn’t Understand About Trust

Harvard Business Review

Decades ago, a company’s market value was nearly equivalent to its tangible assets—buildings, machinery, materials, financial capital, and so on. In 1975 intangible assets were just 17% of the market value of the S&P 500. Trust comes from transparency, and transparency is the norm today.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business Review

In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions. In a previous HBR article , we argued that, in contrast to physical assets that depreciate with use, intangible assets might enhance with use.

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Why Family Businesses Come Roaring out of Recessions

Harvard Business Review

Tobin’s q is the ratio between a company’s market capitalization and the replacement cost of its tangible assets, with a higher ratio indicating that a company has more intangible assets such as patents, brands, leadership etc., Leadership Marketing' during the growth years to 0.8

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Manufacturers invest most of their capital into physical assets, while high-tech firms invest in R&D to create new intellectual capital. But all assets are not created equal, especially as the technological landscape changes. Organizational transformation must begin with a leadership transformation.