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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. Rise of the Chinese thinkers The big story in the 2013 Thinkers50 was the arrival of the first Chinese thinkers in the ranking. Ideas make a difference.

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30 Books in 30 days – Remembering 15 years of the 1st Friday Book Synopsis – (Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne)

First Friday Book Synopsis

{On April 5, 2013, we will celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the First Friday Book Synopsis, and begin our 16th year. During March, I will post a blog post per day remembering key insights from some of the books I have presented over the 15 years of the First Friday Book Synopsis. We have met [.].

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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. This post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria. Iraq is far from a viable democratic system.