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Managing With a Conscience

Leading Blog

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.

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What Younger Workers Can Learn from Older Workers, and Vice Versa

Harvard Business Review

What we asked people was, at this point in their lives, are they actively building, maintaining, or depleting their tangible and intangible assets? Actively building both tangible and intangible assets is crucial to creating a long and productive working life. Over 10,000 people completed it.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

Often when superstar cities fall, they tend to be advanced economy cities, replaced by a developing economy city. For instance, gains to internet, media, and software activities are captured by just 10% of U.S. Acquisitions, bold investment in intangible assets, and attracting talent can ultimately make the difference.

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

Harvard Business Review

Through our research on network-centric businesses and our experience advising hundreds of companies we have developed a framework for understanding customer affinity. Happy about these results, Ann recommends it to all of her followers on social media. It starts by understanding customers’ affinity with the brands.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. That’s not how Vox Media does it. Over 70% of the firms’ software budgets goes to code developed in-house or under custom contracts.