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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. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth. How organizations adapt to this culture shock will determine whether they thrive or even survive and whether U.S.

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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

They present analytical frameworks and tools to foster an organization's ability to systematically create and capture "blue oceans"—unexplored new market areas. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD. History: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean is a strategy developed by W.

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Uniqueness Helps When It Comes To Getting Investment

The Horizons Tracker

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne published their hugely influential book Blue Ocean Strategy, in which they popularize the concept of seeking unknown market spaces that are untainted by competition. Back in 2004 INSEAD’s W. They analyzed data from around 900 listed companies in the US over a twelve-year period.

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Book Notes – Blue Ocean Strategy: How Leaders Drive Change

RapidStart Leadership

Read on, if you are interested in driving change in your organization. [In 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). There is no additional cost to you.]. Blood in the Water.

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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

Strategy involves completion of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them.” The problem is following a plan so closely without responding to events that you will “lead the company efficiently in the wrong direction.” In a sense, strategy creates risk.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think about it: how organizations are run in 2014 is radically different from how they were run just ten years ago. 2 in the ranking (with writing partner Chan Kim) INSEAD’s Renée Mauborgne was the highest placed woman. Who else could you learn from outside your organization? Who could you learn from inside the organization?

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Announcing the First Ever Winner of the Warren Bennis Prize

Harvard Business Review

That article, which ran in our June 2014 issue, argues that for organizations to stay competitive, their leaders must foster collaborative communities that are both willing and able to innovate. We also recognize three runners-up for the award: “Blue Ocean Leadership,” by W.