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The W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy Reader
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The W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy Reader

by W. Chan Kim, Renée A. Mauborgne
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 16m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Charting Your Company’s Future

JOHN REED OF CITICORP was known for insisting that his executives get the big picture. As chairman and CEO, he demanded that business unit heads present their proposed strategies in no more than a few slides. Executives who failed to meet Reed’s exacting standards for brevity met with his unconcealed displeasure. And if it happened too often, they ran the risk of being left out of the loop on future strategy sessions.

Many leaders share Reed’s obsession with the big picture, yet our research shows that few companies actually have a clear strategic vision. The problem, we believe, stems from the strategic-planning process itself. The process usually involves the preparation of a large document—culled from a mishmash ...

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