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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business Review

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. To analyze EvD, determining the relative importance of data to an enterprise’s balance sheet, its ability to effectively compete, and its operational capabilities is a good place to start.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes. Human capital.

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CEOs Need Hard Data on Customer Loyalty

Harvard Business Review

Three-quarters of the world's CEOs say more emphasis should be placed on measuring the value of non-financial assets such as intellectual capital and customer relationships. This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

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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. economy, expands America's global trade, and attracts foreign companies to base operations in the U.S.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Manufacturers invest most of their capital into physical assets, while high-tech firms invest in R&D to create new intellectual capital. In today’s market, tech platforms enable IP and relationships to scale rapidly, and at near-zero cost. These assets are typically overlooked, undervalued, and under-managed.