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Book Notes – Blue Ocean Strategy: How Leaders Drive Change

RapidStart Leadership

When I picked up Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, I thought it was going to be all about what the title suggests – developing successful business strategies, (possibly with some kind of nautical theme). Here are two of my favorite examples. It’s a good book about strategy.

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Beyond Disruption: Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive

Leading Blog

In Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries , Blue Ocean Strategy authors W. The authors highlight a wide variety of examples of nondisruptive-market-creating innovations to help expand our view of innovation. Focused on disruption, we miss opportunities for nondisruptive innovation.

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CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, November 19, 2010 Mostly Links and Random Thoughts Today, I thought I would change it up a bit an just do a few links to content that might interest. I had feedback that my blog was turning into just a book review blog. Linkedin is a good example of the network effect. +

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Its a Jungle In There

CEO Blog

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Thursday, November 11, 2010 Its a Jungle In There Sometimes I like to work slowly. Example of a question he asks: "Once your creation is in the marketplace do you still look to improve it?" I call it CEO Blog - Time Leadership because of my keen interest in time. Worth reading.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

The book is broken into 5 chapters, Canvas - which is the mental and physical model of how the authors Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur think about business. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. I really enjoyed this book.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

In an age of awards overkill, it is tempting to see the ranking as just another example of hubris in the business world. Until very recently, for example, most managers were (and many still are) convinced that fear and greed were the two primary levers for motivating people. The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

You are a new visitor to this blog. You REALLY should subscribe to our newsletter too - you will get exclusive content that is NOT featured on this blog once or twice a month. During the private beta we will engage with some influentials (example A-listers ) and our goal is to convert these influentials into evangelists.