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    1+1=7: How Smart Leaders Make 7 Investments to Maximize Value
    1+1=7: How Smart Leaders Make 7 Investments to Maximize Value
    1+1=7: How Smart Leaders Make 7 Investments to Maximize Value
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    1+1=7: How Smart Leaders Make 7 Investments to Maximize Value

    By Baldwin H. Tom

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    YOUR TREASURE MAP TO HIDDEN RICHES

    Leaders need to know that hidden wealth resides in three places in organizations: their people, their creativity, and their leveraged interactions. In 1+1=7, business leaders are guided to uncover hidden assets and leverage investments to gain enhanced value and return on investment (ROI).

    According to author Baldwin Tom, many executives are not aware of or do not value the seven capital investment areas that will maximize ROI. This book is an important one for everyone working in an organization. It is valuable for executives interested in leveraging seven investments to create high returns from both tangible and intangible assets. People in the business will discover how important they are in building value within the organization.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 20, 2018
    ISBN9781947480216
    1+1=7: How Smart Leaders Make 7 Investments to Maximize Value

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      1+1=7 - Baldwin H. Tom

      Acknowledgments

      PREFACE

      One of my early assignments as an independent management consultant was to determine the value or cost of failed training for insurance agents and to present the results. If the company spent time and money to train a new agent, and the trainee left at the end of the year, what was the cost (loss) to the agency?

      That was an easy assignment. I simply added the cost of hours for training, salaries, materials, and customer considerations that I had gathered from the agency and totaled those up to reach a number. At that time, twenty years ago, the minimal loss was $100,000 per failed trainee. It was a shocker for the agency; they had not made the computations before.

      That experience led to another assignment: to compute the value or cost of morale (or lack thereof). This was a more challenging task, but to help compute this, I came up with another algorithm. From that point forward, I felt able to quantify all soft-side, intangible aspects of a business. Along the way, I became aware that businesses do not account for such intangibles. Standard financial statements do not include people as assets, even though, without people, there would be no business.

      It was not a great leap for me to become interested in helping business leaders analyze and optimize intangible investments within enterprises, as people are investments. Thus began my journey to consider intangible investment types and their roles in creating high Return-on-Investment (ROI).

      Thank you for joining me on this journey.

      Baldwin H. Tom

      April 2018

      Leaders need to know hidden wealth resides in organizations: their people, their creativity, and their leveraged interactions. This book is all about helping leaders find that hidden wealth and leverage investments in their businesses to gain enhanced value and ROI.

      The challenge is that many leaders do not fully appreciate the totality of where the value resides in their organizations.

      If there were a way to clearly see the different investment types in a business enterprise, would you be interested?

      If you answered yes, there is good news. The goal of this book is not to provide a new way to value a business, but to show where value is typically not realized within a business. Why is this important? Because if leaders understand the seven best areas in which to invest in their companies, then they can greatly increase the value of those businesses.

      Before such a discussion begins, however, it is important to address how investments (both tangible [task-side] and intangible [people-side]) fit into valuation. Standard accounting practices are available to compute and characterize tangible assets in a business. For example, the balance sheet tabulates Assets and Liabilities. Intangible investments, on the other hand, have no standard measures or tracking mechanisms.

      Where Value Hides in Plain Sight

      Think of this book like a treasure map; it will help you find hidden riches or assets. The discussion begins with how accountants traditionally account for assets.

      While they know how to account for tangible assets, accounting for the value of intangible assets in a business has been a historical challenge. This includes the value people bring to the company (e.g., education, training, expertise, experiences, and certifications) along with what they do to add value to an enterprise, such as building corporate knowledge (processes, procedures, norms, and inventions). In addition, intangible assets include intellectual property (e.g., patents, trademarks, and copyrights), relationships (both interpersonal and customer), and goodwill. Within this context, the concept of intellectual capital has been defined as all those intangibles that consist of people and/or are derived from a business’s people.

      Now consider questions that arise regarding intangible assets as they relate to the other two standard accounting statements that describe a business’s financials—cash flow and income statements. How will intangible assets be entered into the cash flow statement, which tracks the inflow and outflow of a company’s money? What portion of funds is obtained from the intangible component of the business, and what amount is used? For the income statement, how are revenues and expenses from intangible investments logged? Accountants are undertaking ongoing efforts to answer these questions with studies that seek to capture the intangible assets into a company’s financials. Yet it will take time before the accounting community accepts and formalizes consensus on algorithms and methods. Until then, valuation of intangibles will be provided in multiple ways, or not at all.

      The current solution for determining the value of intangible assets is simple. The challenge is determining agreement on how to (1) characterize the intangibles, (2) agree on numerical values for the intangibles, and (3) agree on how to incorporate intangible assets into the financials.

      The first step is to consider the connection of intangible assets with intellectual capital, which is covered in the next chapter.

      There exists untapped value in every

      organization hidden in people and

      what they do.

      Before you can uncover hidden wealth, it helps to know what you are looking for.

      Ever since I first heard the phrase, Our people are our greatest assets, I have wondered why there is no place on financial statements to account for their value. To understand this, let’s begin the discussion by defining our terms.

      Intangible Assets, Defined

      Yes, people are assets. Until recently, however, the accounting world did not consider the value of intangible assets in business financials. This clearly suggests

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