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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. 2 in the ranking (with writing partner Chan Kim) INSEAD’s Renée Mauborgne was the highest placed woman. This compares with just one in 2011.)

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Apple Versus the Strategy Professors

Harvard Business Review

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne , and it certainly sounds like what Apple has been up to. Apple still has an edge, in that it built that sea — "so powerful is blue ocean strategy," Chan and Mauborgne write, "that a blue ocean strategic move can create brand equity that lasts for decades." That's the path to riches described by W.

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The Making of an Innovation Master

Harvard Business Review

Chan Kim , and Renee Mauborgne. The duo (who are affiliated with Innosight) wrote a great book with Clayton Christensen last year called The Innovator's DNA. And I'm sure there are many more people with great ideas that I just haven't encountered yet. One natural question is, "Who is next?" Jeffrey Dyer and Hal Gregersen.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain. .” It’s tempting to think the third camp — reacting opportunistically to emerging possibilities — represents the field’s most recent thinking.