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How to Foster Innovative Thinking at Your Company

CEO Insider

Innovative ideas, an innovative culture, a history of innovation — these are all intangible assets that any business leader would love to have. It might mean something different to every executive you talk to, but surely everyone wants it. Executives aren’t alone. Nearly all of today’s […].

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How to Build Your First Balance Sheet as a Startup?

Strategy Driven

Here, we shall be examining a balance sheet, what it includes, and how to build your first as a startup. Assets here can be current or non-current assets , and they include everything that the startup owns within a given period. Assets can be tangible, which refers to those assets that can be seen and touched like properties.

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How to Make Organizational Change Enduring

Six Disciplines

There is still a whole notion of focusing on tangible assets and their impact on the bottom line, rather than the intangible assets, which are people. Change initiatives typically devote most budgets to structural issues such as technology and processes, not staff issues. Organizations don''t adapt to change; their people do.

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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. And even if there were, it would have to be expressed as a probability statement: How likely is Apple to innovate or out-innovate its peers?

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How to Keep Your Team Agile and Aligned Under Pressure

Strategy Driven

However, there is an intangible asset that is very difficult to quantify — but without it you cannot ultimately succeed. This asset is, of course, alignment. It amazes me how few leaders understand how to harness, measure, leverage, and ultimately achieve true alignment behind their strategies and objectives.

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Managing With a Conscience

Leading Blog

Frank Sonnenberg makes the case in Managing with a Conscience , that the only sustainable way to succeed is the right way—not cutting corners—emphasizing the intangibles like trust, creativity, focus, speed, flexibility, relationships, loyalty, and employee commitment. Understands that trust is foundational.

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

Great Leadership By Dan

These results can be, in my experience, best conceived as a progression of outcomes moving from intangible assets to tangible outcomes. Author of Level Three Leadership , Dr. Clawson has helped executives and managers at all levels learn how to be more effective leaders in today’s rapidly changing environment.