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

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CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

Glen won the Rural Community Power Award : Rural Community Power Award: Glen Estill. “As As a pioneer of Ontario’s wind industry, Glen Estill represents the ideal of what a developer should be. . + I am looking forward to Brothers weekend this weekend. Always good to see them. My health hint for the day is to smile.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

At the highest level, there are three propositions essential to the success of strategy: the value proposition, the profit proposition, and the people proposition. This is why a sustainable blue ocean strategy requires a fully developed and consistent set of three propositions.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

The goal is to fully leverage the power of Amazon EC2 kind of infrastructure to help with scaling when we start seeing an eyeball-explosion. We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. You can say that we are sort of using cloud computing a bit.

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How to Execute a 15-Word Strategy Statement

Harvard Business Review

There is no shortage of stories and anecdotes to illustrate how the best strategies can nearly always be reduced down to a brief but powerful statement and even more ink has been spilled describing the dangers of strategy statements that read like detailed action plans.

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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Dead, but Physical Retail Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

From sitting at the kitchen table to waiting for a train, consumers have the power to browse, compare prices, and order from thousands of retailers competing for their attention. A more interesting development — one more pertinent to the challenges Toys “R” Us is facing — is the emergence of “shoppable showrooms.”

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World Business Forum – Top 10 Speakers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Joseph Grenny - Joe spoke about the need for, and power of influence. Renee Mauborgne - Co-author of Blue Ocean Strategy , Renee offered great insights on creating demand, most particularly on creating consumer demand where little or none previously existed. Most notably he did it very well.

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