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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). It was about strategy. It’s a good book about strategy. Want to drive change?

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Beyond Disruption: Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive

Leading Blog

In contrast, nondisruptive innovation is “achieved without disrupting a preexisting market and its associated companies and jobs.” In Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries , Blue Ocean Strategy authors W. Look beyond the existing market and environment.

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How To Innovate And Grow Via Nondisruptive Creation

Eric Jacobson

The book, Beyond Disruption , shows companies how to build a path beyond disruption, where economic growth and social good are not trade-offs that work against each other and divide us. As you read the book, you’ll learn how to apply the authors’ recommended pattern to pursue non-disruptive opportunities in a three basic steps systematic way.

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What is Your Red Ocean Strategy? – (Success in a Crowded Market)

First Friday Book Synopsis

So, this week I presented my synopsis on the terrific book Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business.

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CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

I did an interview where I spoke of my business optimism called How to Own the Future. ++ I read with interest an article on Tech Crunch about Linkedins success. My most popular article of all time remains " How to write an Article in 20 Minutes " posted by Jim Estill @ 6:38 AM 1 Comments: At 3:27 AM , J.D. I am CEO between positions.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

As the ultimate outputs of an organization’s activities are value for the buyer and revenue for itself and its inputs are the costs to produce them and the people to deliver them, the three strategy propositions of buyer value, profit (revenue minus costs), and people capture the essence of what an organization’s activity system does.