Hidden Assets - Total Leadership - CIO Magazine Apr 15,2003 is a good knowledge nugget. I clipped this one because I’ve been running into so many people lately who are talking about intangible value. (Social capital has taken its place along with intellectual capital, structural capital, and customer capital in the foundation first laid by Sveiby, and expanded by Saint-Onge and others).

Leadership capital, writes Christopher Hoenig, consists of 4 “C”s: character, competence, contacts and creativity.

He defines leadership capital as “an executive’s resources available to fuel his agenda. A lack of leadership capital awareness can lead to dangerous misconceptions among many aspiring leaders—for capital is not merely a constraint or an enabler, it is a central force in leadership.”

Nat Welch and I are working with John T. Maloney to set up a KM Cluster in Boston in October on the topic of the intangible value — and placing a price on it — of the 3rd C, contacts: your network. Details to come…