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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. Management should announce an open-door policy.

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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

Here''s a real shocker: In a survey of 3,300 senior managers and human resource professionals reported by Rob Lebow in his Washington CEO magazine. Most organizations say their most important assets are their people, but few behave as if this were true. 75% of all organizational change programs fail. Why is change so hard ?

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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. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." If you can't measure it, how can you manage it?

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

Great Leadership By Dan

Now, if we have learned to manage our selves and how we present ourselves, and if we have a strategic story to tell, and if we are able to sell that story to others, this is still not enough. This southeast axis we can call “managing change.”. This influence comes from a variety of sources and can be effective or ineffective.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

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?