Posted by john on 28 January, 2010 under Strategy | 
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, by W Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, HBS Press 2005.
Summary: Blue Ocean Strategy is very useful in stimulating thinking about many different ways in which the delivery of products and services can be improved and differentiated to enhance profit margins.
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t, by Jim Collins, Harper Business 2001.
Summary: Good to Great is rightly regarded as a business classic. It is well researched and well written, and it contains a number of concepts and tools which are very helpful when appraising or creating the strategy of an organisation.
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown 2009.
Summary: This book is helpful if you want to study how to tell a story in an engaging manner, but its strength lies primarily in its entertainment value rather than in the usefulness of the information it contains.
