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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’s a good book about strategy. There is no additional cost to you.].

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. In Blue Ocean Strategy , the authors, reveal another way to innovate and grow. It may become nearly impossible to create a culture of committed team members and powerful relationships at work.

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So, If Your Company Does Not Have a Flawless Foundation, Try This – (Insight with Challenge from Peter Thiel, Zero to One)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Peter Thiel, Zero to One ————— A couple of years ago, I presented my synopsis of the book Blue Ocean Strategy to an energetic team at an in-demand marketing firm. As a founder, your first job is to get the first things right, because you cannot build a great company on a flawed foundation.

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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. The group was the entire team at a growing firm, one that is vibrant, alive, energetic… The kind of place people like to show [.]. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.

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Laziness – The Counterintuitive Act Of Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

When people talk about change and innovation and “blue ocean strategy,” they’re pointing toward Great Work. It’s about helping you and your team do more Great Work – work that has more impact, and work that has more meaning. Finally, there’s Great Work. This is the work that has more impact and more meaning.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. This final chapter puts it all together. I really enjoyed this book.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. The goal is to fully leverage the power of Amazon EC2 kind of infrastructure to help with scaling when we start seeing an eyeball-explosion. The user-interface and logo were crowdsourced and is XHTML 1.1