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A vast treasure of intellectual capital awaits you….

First Friday Book Synopsis

Many people are unaware that among the invaluable resources that Harvard Business Review makes available at no cost online are more than 100 videos — each about five minutes in length – that have been excerpted from conversations during which eminent thought leaders share their insights. Here’s a partial list. FYI, I am using a [.].

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

Harvard Business Review

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Value is in the products and services themselves.

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Gloominess About the US Economy is a Choice

Harvard Business Review

Whereas we’ve been growing our manufacturing sector since the ’60s in terms of product volumes and dollar output, manufacturing employment hasn’t grown at all. Since then, America’s productivity lead has been growing sharply, not falling behind. The same is true in the broader economy. So who exactly is eating whose lunch? Far from it.

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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.