Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

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. If you treat people right, they will treat you right.

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Management Intangible Assets Critical Success Factor Compliance 284

Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

You can see this play out in your daily operations and ultimately in the P&L. 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. efficiency).

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Agility P&L Intangible Assets Team 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Curiously, companies are allowed to report purchased brands and intangibles as assets on balance sheet, creating distortions between earnings and assets of digital companies that rely on organic growth versus acquisitions. Its value growth is powered by the network in place, not by increments of operating costs.

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Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Begin with the easy things that you have always tracked — and physical assets such as plant, property, and equipment. Fourth, begin to operate a pilot of your network business by shifting small amounts of capital (including time, talent, and money) to the new initiative. If not, your transformation is sure to stall out.

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Intangible Assets Business Model How To Intellectual Capital 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Even accounting rules specifically dealing with reputation — goodwill and intangible assets — are subject to frequent rule changes and endless debate. When properly installed and operated, it delivers financial growth. Perhaps the accountants are just overcomplicating a basic idea.

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Intangible Assets Ethics Short-term Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

We recommend a five-step process called PIVOT: Pinpoint, Identify, Visualize, Operate, and Track. Evaluate your leadership team’s openness to co-creation as well. Operate your new co-creative digital business. The biggest hurdle to co-creation is usually shifting the leadership team’s mental model.

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