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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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Laziness – The Counterintuitive Act Of Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

When people talk about change and innovation and “blue ocean strategy,” they’re pointing toward Great Work. BJ Fogg’s work at TinyHabits.com is also useful, and his insight about “micro-habits” that take a minute or less to complete is powerful. Finally, there’s Great Work. Apply this model to your working life.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. This final chapter puts it all together. I really enjoyed this book. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pink Demos Dr. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

They have the power to change the world. Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. The book introduced the idea of disruptive innovation to a generation of managers.

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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. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) We used agile method to build the product using the latest open source stack and some mashups with a few online services.

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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. Innovation Strategy'

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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. Cash registers were plentiful and easy to find, and success was measured with metrics like sales per square foot and average size of transaction.

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