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Reputation Risk Management Is Vital For The C-Suite

CEO Insider

At a time when corporate leadership is in the crosshairs of investors, regulators, and everyone in between, risk managers are moving from back offices to corner offices and becoming leaders of enterprise-wide strategic teams, supporting the corporate mission by protecting the firms’ intangible assets.

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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. Most intangible assets are real but invisible, and the most important invisible ability is the ability (or, perhaps better said, the probability) to collaborate. So, the question is: What are the most critical intangible assets in your company?

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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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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.

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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. As a leader, you are constantly trying to maximize the magical effort to effectiveness equation (a.k.a. efficiency).

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

Harvard Business Review

Today, the majority of market value is made up of intangible assets (networks, platforms, intellectual property, customer relationships, big data) more than physical assets. In fact, it’s not even close: intangible assets make up over 80% of the S&P 500’s market value — a complete reversal from 1975.

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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.