Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

HARD ASSETS VERSUS BRAINPOWER
Today, our banking and financial industries are struggling to make
the shift to knowledge as an asset. Banks, for example, will lend
money today only against 
hard assets
, things that can be seized as
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collateral and sold to repay the loan. However, the real assets of a
company are not the tangible items at all. They are the thinking
ability of the people who work there. They are contained in the
combined brainpower of teams of experts working together to solve
problems, create innovations, and produce goods and services for
the competitive marketplace.
Your ability to utilize your brainpower and unlock your creative
abilities is absolutely essential to your success. Today, we know
more about how you can become smarter than we ever have before.
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