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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. 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.

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Make Your Next Innovation Jam Work

Harvard Business Review

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." If your company is one, you may be interested in our experience at the European Center for Strategic Innovation.

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The Founder of Dogfish Head on Flouting a 500-Year-Old Beer Law

Harvard Business Review

And sitting there in the library, reading about this dusty old law that had narrowed the world’s taste for beer, I committed to brewing most of our beers outside of its feudal regimen. Business experts look at what we did and say that Dogfish Head followed a blue ocean strategy.