Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations
by Thomas A. Stewart
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Business. Nonfiction. HTML:Visionary in scope, Intellectual Capital is the first book that shows how to turn the untapped knowledge of an organization into its greatest competitive weapon. Thomas A. Stewart demonstrates how knowledge—not natural resources, machinery, or financial capital—has become the most important factor in economic life. Through practical advice, stories, and case histories, Stewart reveals how organizations and individuals can create and use the knowledge show more assets they need. Dazzling in its ability to make conceptual sense of the economic revolution we are living through, this ingenious book cuts through the vague rhetoric of "paradigm shifts" to show how the Information Age economy really works.Intellectual Capital should be read as if the futures of your company and your career depend on it. They do. show less
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Ironically longish for the information content, but a good synopsis of the current trend toward data/information/knowledge/wisdom being the new hierarchy of value and process.
Very good introduction to business. Great reading on the information age. Good insight into Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital All entrepreneur's, business people, managers, and employees will benefit from this book. I highly recommend.
p. 203 "Just as the value a business creates derives less from the physical assets it controls than from the knowledge it develops and applies, so the importance and value of a caree is marked not by hierarchical position--a badge of the assets one contro
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Thomas A. Stewart lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Il capitale intellettuale: la nuova ricchezza
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- Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations
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