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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. But disruption, for all its power, is destructive—displacing jobs, companies, and even entire industries.

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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. Chan Kim Renee Mauborgne. As the Comic Relief case illustrates, the aligned value, profit, and people propositions around differentiation and low cost create powerful, reinforcing synergies and a win-win for all.

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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

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. One natural question is, "Who is next?" Jeffrey Dyer and Hal Gregersen. Braden Kelley.

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Stop Trying to Engineer Success

Harvard Business Review

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne examined the emergence of outrageously successful companies like Cirque du Soleil, and claim to have discovered the keys. A constant process of adjustment allows them to be at the right place by the time the ball becomes catchable. Iraq is far from a viable democratic system.