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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

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. With the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007, they didn’t just create a successful product, they created a new category of product.

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Are The Best Innovations For Society Those That Are Non-Disruptive?

The Horizons Tracker

Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne believe that not only is this form of innovation not as predominant as we perhaps think, but that other forms of innovation may actually be better for society. Indeed, a major reason why immigrants are often such productive entrepreneurs is that they apply things from their homeland in their new location.

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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

Third, there are tools that I have found valuable in my work with some of the most successful organisations in the world."

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Marginal Market Opportunities

Harvard Business Review

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne of INSEAD have written a whole book about Blue Ocean Strategy as they call it, in which successful companies innovate their value propositions to attract customers who have never engaged with their type of product or service before. There's an important lesson here.

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You Can Win Without Differentiation

Harvard Business Review

From Michael Porter to Costas Markides and through the Blue Oceans of Kim and Mauborgne, strategy scholars have been urging executives to distinguish their firm’s offerings and carve out a unique market position. McKinsey, of course, offers the most uncertain product of all: Strategy advice.

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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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