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Blue Ocean Strategy:
Organizational politics is an inescapable reality of corporate and public life.
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Blue Ocean Strategy:
Don’t fight alone… Identify your detractors and supporters – forget the middle – and strive to create a win-win outcome for both. But move quickly.
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Blue Ocean Strategy:
Key to winning over your detractors or devils is knowing all their likely angles of attack and building up counterarguments by irrefutable facts and reason.
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Blue Ocean Strategy:
Don’t follow conventional wisdom. Not every challenge requires a disproportionate action. Focus on acts of disproportionate influence.
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Blue Ocean Strategy:
…it is only when all the members of an organization are aligned around a strategy and support it, for better or for worse, that a company stands apart as a great and consistent executor.
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Blue Ocean Strategy:
You must create a culture of trust and commitment that motivates people to execute the agreed strategy – not to the letter, but to the spirit.
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Blue Ocean Strategy:
People…must embrace [the strategy] so that at the level of the individual, people embrace it of their own accord and willingly go beyond compulsory execution to voluntary cooperation in carrying it out.
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Blue Ocean Strategy:
When fair process is exercised in the strategy-making process, people trust that a level playing field exists.
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Blue Ocean Strategy:
By violating fair process in making and rolling out strategies, managers can turn their best employees into their worst…
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Blue Ocean Strategy:
When individuals feel recognized for their intellectual worth, they are willing to share their knowledge…
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