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Summary: Harnessing Barinpower
Review: Tom Stewart gives a concrete shape to the wishy washy waorld of Knowledge Management, Organisational Learning and Intellectual capital. Written with the passion of an evangelist and the style of a novel, the book always keeps you nodding your head. Stewart demonstrates how the traditional accounting system and management processes do not take into account the most important things in the company, human capital, structural capital and customer capital.He dedicates sections to the three and shows us the way truly "new economy" companies value and invest in them. A must read for the manager and the employee (not that there is much difference these days!) The scary part is the section on human capital and the realisation that you could be "redundant" and "non-value adding" to your company without any fault of yours. Read the book. It's a must!!
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Summary: This is why there is downsizing, understand why and prosper.
Review: Tom Stewart's book covers the inevitable. The transformation of the American and world economies. The book is easy to read, fun (for a business book) and relies on simple, but powerful metaphors to explain how our economy is changing and what we (as parts of this change)can do to take advantage of the changes. Stewart dicusses three kinds of intellectual capital and how the "knowledge worker" of the 21st century will compete. This is ideal reading for middle managers who are still at a loss as to why they have been downsized. This is a good supplement to Tom Peter's "The Pursuit of Wow!" But this book is not just for managers. Those that work in any organization (public or private, small or large) have something to learn from this book. Read it, but more importantly apply it!
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