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Depreciating Intellectual Capital

LDRLB

Hamel argued that on biggest challenges facing large companies was senior leadership “inability to write off their own depreciating intellectual capital. The value of their intellectual capital had decreased, and they didn’t adjust their books. This wasn’t the first time Hamel had used the term.

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Depreciating Intellectual Capital

LDRLB

Hamel argued that on biggest challenges facing large companies was senior leadership “inability to write off their own depreciating intellectual capital. The value of their intellectual capital had decreased, and they didn’t adjust their books. This wasn’t the first time Hamel had used the term.

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The Global Innovation 1000 (2011): Why Culture is Key

First Friday Book Synopsis

Tom Stewart is Booz & Company’s Chief Marketing & Knowledge Officer. In a recent email update, he asks several intriguing questions: Are there CEOs anywhere in the world who want their companies to become less innovative? Is anyone calling on employees to do a better job of thinking inside the box?

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The “intellectual capital” brought in by high-knowledge employees will be a major, if not the primary, competitive advantage. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. .

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3 Critical Components of a Shared Mental Model

Lead Change Blog

They were internationally recognized as an entrepreneurial giant, noted for their “Pirate” mentality consistently causing beneficial market disruption which yielded revolutionary advancements. The topic of discussion: The Questionable Future of the Company. Q1 : Do we have the right people? But they were all running in different directions.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." Certainly, that's a fair accusation.

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. French pharmaceutical company Sanofi recently acquired Boston-based Genzyme to tap into America's intellectual capital in biotechnology.