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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

Karl Moore takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to understanding what drives millennials and generation Z and how the education system they were brought up in has informed their worldview. Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. Chan Kim and Renée A.

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Book Notes – Blue Ocean Strategy: How Leaders Drive Change

RapidStart Leadership

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, I thought it was going to be all about what the title suggests – developing successful business strategies, (possibly with some kind of nautical theme). In the second half of the book, Kim and Mauborgne provide lots of great tools and approaches to help us overcome organizational inertia effectively.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

The three strategy propositions correspond to the traditional activity system of an organization. Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. Chan Kim Renee Mauborgne. Excerpted from. Competition Book. Add to Cart.

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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.

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Stop Trying to Engineer Success

Harvard Business Review

Iraq is far from a viable democratic system. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne examined the emergence of outrageously successful companies like Cirque du Soleil, and claim to have discovered the keys. The fundamental problem with the engineering approach is that simple mechanics do not drive outcomes in complex systems.