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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

With the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007, they didn’t just create a successful product, they created a new category of product. Apple always aims to set itself apart from competitors not by price but by competitive advantages based on product design that attracts customers.

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How to “Manage” A Blue Lobster

Mills Scofield

He never yelled at me again (though he did keep yelling at the rest of the team), and became one of three manager-mentors that shaped my career at Bell Labs and AT&T — and taught me to manage others and myself. My manager-mentors made it clear that I mattered not just for what I could do, but also for who I was.

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Hot Seat: Jeff Immelt at GE

Leading Blog

I N SEPTEMBER 2001, Jack Welch was a tough act to follow. And in 2001, the economic tailwinds that Welch enjoyed were about to shift. Tech start-ups define success, especially in the first decade, on how well they acquire customers, build capability, and penetrate their emerging markets.

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How to “Manage” A Blue Lobster

Mills Scofield

He never yelled at me again (though he did keep yelling at the rest of the team), and became one of three manager-mentors that shaped my career at Bell Labs and AT&T — and taught me to manage others and myself. My manager-mentors made it clear that I mattered not just for what I could do, but also for who I was.

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Management Innovations Only Work When No One Else Is Doing Them

The Horizons Tracker

The analytics-driven tactics used by Oakland Athletics’ manager Billy Beane not only inspired the best-selling book and film Moneyball, but also a wave of imitators seeking to tap into the secret sauce that allowed Beane to over-achieve with the unfancied baseball team he was in charge of. ” Management innovation.

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How Language Can Help CEO Successions Succeed

The Horizons Tracker

Despite this apparent success however, the strategies were not without risk, and should certainly not be regarded as a sure fire way of delivering results. Similarly, if the CEO engaged in a degree of self-promotion, they were found to mitigate the impact of a poor reaction from the stock market. No silver bullet. ” Social influence.

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Change is a Double-Edged Sword

Lead Change Blog

One of my favorite change quotes comes from a book by Michael Fullan, a Canadian expert on educational change, who wrote in Leading in a Culture of Change [2001]: “Change is a double-edged sword. Leading change well requires managing arational factors. It first appeared in his book, “Managing Change … and making it stick!”.

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