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Books like Blue Ocean Strategy
The best books like Blue Ocean Strategy are Competitive Strategy, The Innovator's Dilemma, and Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne is about strategy, innovation, market creation. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Competitive Strategy
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Michael E. Porter · Business
Competitive Strategy is Michael Porter's foundational framework for analyzing industries and developing competitive strategy.
Shares strategy and competition with Blue Ocean Strategy.
Read the summary → - The Innovator's Dilemma
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Clayton M. Christensen · Business
Christensen's argument, published in 1997, is deceptively simple: the very practices that make companies excellent at serving their current customers — listening carefully, investing in proven technologies, targeting the most profitable segments — are precisely what causes them to miss disruptive innovations.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
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Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
Roger L. Martin and A.G. Lafley · Business
Playing to Win is Roger Martin and A.G.
Shares strategy and innovation with Blue Ocean Strategy.
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- Crossing the Chasm
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Geoffrey A. Moore · Business
Crossing the Chasm is Geoffrey Moore's analysis of why so many technology companies succeed with early adopters and then stall before reaching mainstream customers.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Good Strategy Bad Strategy
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Richard Rumelt · Business
Good Strategy Bad Strategy is Richard Rumelt's indictment of the strategic planning process as it is practiced in most organizations, and his articulation of what genuine strategy actually requires.
Shares strategy and competition with Blue Ocean Strategy.
Read the summary → - The Innovator's Solution
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Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor · Business
The Innovator's Solution is Christensen and Raynor's follow-up to The Innovator's Dilemma, which explained why great companies fail in the face of disruptive innovation.
Shares strategy and innovation with Blue Ocean Strategy.
Read the summary → - Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy
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Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy
Joan Magretta · Business
Understanding Michael Porter is Joan Magretta's attempt to translate Porter's ideas — notoriously dense in their original form — into something practicing managers can actually use.
Shares strategy and competition with Blue Ocean Strategy.
Read the summary → - Competing Against Luck
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Clayton M. Christensen · Business
Competing Against Luck is Clayton Christensen's most complete development of the Jobs to Be Done framework, which he introduced briefly in The Innovator's Solution.
Shares strategy and innovation with Blue Ocean Strategy.
Read the summary → - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Peter F. Drucker · Business
Innovation and Entrepreneurship is Drucker's systematic treatment of a subject that, in 1985, most people still regarded as the province of lone geniuses and lucky accidents.
Shares strategy and innovation with Blue Ocean Strategy.
Read the summary → - Loonshots
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Safi Bahcall · Business
Loonshots is physicist and biotech CEO Safi Bahcall's argument that the most transformative innovations — the kind he calls loonshots, after the eccentric northern bird — are fragile ideas that look foolish or impossible until they suddenly aren't, and that organizations systematically kill them long before they get a chance to prove themselves.
Shares strategy and innovation with Blue Ocean Strategy.
Read the summary → - No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer · Business
No Rules Rules is Reed Hastings's account of the management philosophy that has governed Netflix since the company pivoted from DVDs to streaming and built one of the most watched entertainment platforms in the world.
Shares strategy and innovation with Blue Ocean Strategy.
Read the summary → - The Ride of a Lifetime
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Robert Iger · Business
The Ride of a Lifetime is Robert Iger's account of his fifteen years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, from his appointment in 2005 to his planned retirement in 2020.
Shares strategy and innovation with Blue Ocean Strategy.
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Books like Blue Ocean Strategy: quick answers
What are the best books like Blue Ocean Strategy?
The best books like Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne are Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter, The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by Roger L. Martin and A.G. Lafley, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore, Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Blue Ocean Strategy, such as strategy, innovation, market creation.
What should I read after Blue Ocean Strategy?
A natural next read after Blue Ocean Strategy is Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter. Shares strategy and competition with Blue Ocean Strategy. Other strong choices are The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by Roger L. Martin and A.G. Lafley, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore.
What books are similar to Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne?
Blue Ocean Strategy centers on strategy, innovation, market creation. Books with a similar feel include Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter, The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by Roger L. Martin and A.G. Lafley, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore, Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt, The Innovator's Solution by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
