How to maximize human and intellectual capital
One of James Hughes’ great themes–something he stressed in his first book, Family Wealth, and that he emphasizes again in his latest volume, Family: The Compact Among Generations–is the idea that a family needs to grow its human and intellectual capital. The growth of human and intellectual capital must come before the growth of monetary capital. Human and intellectual capital are more important than monetary capital.
In Family: The Compact Among Generations, Hughes insists that family members must participate in the family from desire and interest rather than out of any sense of obligation or external compulsion.
“[N]o human being will voluntarily join any organization unless he first perceives that he will be enhanced by it before having to contribute to it.” And so, Read the rest of this entry »
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human capital, intellectual capital, James Hughes
