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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. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth. and global productivity will go up or down. Chan Kim and Renée A. Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice.

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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

History: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean is a strategy developed by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD. McDonald’s is in a fiercely competitive fast-food industry with aggressive discounts, new product variations, and high-profile commercials. Great examples of Red Ocean companies are McDonald’s and Southwest Airlines.

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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

The tools include: SWOT analysis, Porter's 5 forces of competition, McKinsey's 7-S framework, BCG’s product portfolio matrix, Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean, Kaplan and Norton's balanced scorecard, Mintzberg’s deliberate and emergent, Prahalad's bottom of the pyramid and twenty-one more. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal (..)

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

Harvard Business Review

As families moved out to the suburbs, and interstate highways improved distribution and logistics, a single location focused on a particular product area made a lot of sense. To understand the shift, just walk into your nearest Apple store, where you will find a limited selection of products and no cash registers.

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The Making of an Innovation Master

Harvard Business Review

I didn't create any kind of ranking algorithm while making my choices, but did consider three basic criteria: Do the individual's ideas bring clarity to the quest of improving the predictability and productivity of innovation? Chan Kim , and Renee Mauborgne. To what degree has the person's work affected me personally?

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World Business Forum – Top 10 Speakers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. Smart leaders spend more time on creativity than productivity.&# My favorite quote from Martin was: “ great brands are emotional bookmarks.&#

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