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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

Tool #5 - Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy This week, let’s understand how companies position themselves in the marketplace to succeed - The Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy. Great examples of Red Ocean companies are McDonald’s and Southwest Airlines. Be the Big Fish in the pond.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

This book helps managers understand the postmodern worldview held by generation Z and younger millennials, how it influences their behaviour at work, and how they want to be led in the workplace. Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. Chan Kim and Renée A.

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Competitive Advantage from the Bottom of the Pyramid

LDRLB

Global firms have employed blue ocean strategies to cater their services and offerings to the BoP (Bottom of Pyramid). Many companies have derived BoP strategies from C.K. Prahalad , the brilliant management guru. LG has devised payment subscription plans that makes its products affordable.

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Find Your Next

CEO Blog

They call it a genome that consists of 6 parts: 1 - Product or Service innovation. I did not follow the process through for any particular company - rather, I read the book (so likely did not get the same value someone would who actually took the steps and did the exercises) One of my all time favorite books is Blue Ocean Strategy.

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Its a Jungle In There

CEO Blog

But as I always say Leadership(Direction/Work on the right thing) before Management(efficiency). That is the thesis behind my Time Management book. It shines through in the book) Product "Be excellent or be gone". and "Do you consider the impact you have when selling your product or service?" Sweat the small stuff.

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Laziness – The Counterintuitive Act Of Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

It’s busy, efficient, and productive. When people talk about change and innovation and “blue ocean strategy,” they’re pointing toward Great Work. I’ve asked more than over twenty thousand managers and leaders that question over the years. you’re doing Bad Work. Good Work is your job description.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Key activities can be categorized as: Production, Problem Solving, Platform/network) Key Partnerships – Some activities are outsourced and some resources are acquired outside the enterprise. (It Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. I really enjoyed this book.