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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD. This involves the commoditization of the industry where everyone is competing primarily on price — the key goals are to beat the competition and exploit existing demand. History: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean is a strategy developed by W.

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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

Strategy involves completion of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them.” The problem is following a plan so closely without responding to events that you will “lead the company efficiently in the wrong direction.” In a sense, strategy creates risk.

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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