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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

This book helps managers understand the postmodern worldview held by generation Z and younger millennials, how it influences their behaviour at work, and how they want to be led in the workplace. Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. Chan Kim and Renée A.

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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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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

Motivating people requires more than overcoming organizational hurdles and winning people’s trust with fair process. Almost all these activities entail significant overhead costs in staff, management, and administration as well as the possible renting or purchase of facilities. Chan Kim Renee Mauborgne. Excerpted from.

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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Dead, but Physical Retail Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

” Today retail is in the process of being reinvented once again, and Toys “R” Us has failed to keep up, as economics in the industry have shifted against it. Most people of a certain age today remember the thrill of a visit to the endless aisles of wonderful things, each box promising hours of fabulous play.

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The Making of an Innovation Master

Harvard Business Review

After all, Lafley's bent is to manage innovation in a systematic, disciplined way. Chan Kim , and Renee Mauborgne. The book details the five behaviors that help power innovation success (associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting), and provides a raft of practical tips to get better at innovation.

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Stop Trying to Engineer Success

Harvard Business Review

But how should managers go about unlocking the lessons of those efforts? Similarly, in the management world, we constantly see the engineering approach being urged and falling short. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne examined the emergence of outrageously successful companies like Cirque du Soleil, and claim to have discovered the keys.