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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. Paychecks no longer buy loyalty, happiness, and effort. Chan Kim and Renée A. The workplace has undergone a massive shift.

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

Harvard Business Review

Yet instead of going high-touch, Toys “R” Us has opted for high-tech, rolling out new features like Find It Fast , to let customers see which stores had which toys, and using the loyalty program for better targeted ads and better product life cycle management. Rather, they seek to optimize a failing model. In their 2005 book, W.

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Apple Versus the Strategy Professors

Harvard Business Review

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne , and it certainly sounds like what Apple has been up to. Apple still has an edge, in that it built that sea — "so powerful is blue ocean strategy," Chan and Mauborgne write, "that a blue ocean strategic move can create brand equity that lasts for decades." That's the path to riches described by W.