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Book Notes – Blue Ocean Strategy: How Leaders Drive Change

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Read on, if you are interested in driving change in your organization. [In 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 was about strategy.

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White Gold: A Story of Persistence

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Sticking with it until you are successful can be an entirely different matter. Hoping to take advantage of this opportunity, in 1866 Samuel Platt organized the Goderich Petroleum Company in Ontario, Canada, secured the backing of local investors, and started drilling on the north bank of the Maitland River. Not as Easy as He Thought.

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