Blue Ocean Classics

W. Chan Kim · Renée Mauborgne

Aug 2019 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Steve Menasche

About this audiobook

W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne changed the field of strategy and the language of business with their pathbreaking "blue ocean strategy," a model for creating uncontested markets that unlock new demand and new opportunities for growth. This book brings together three of their classic blue ocean strategy articles, all first published in Harvard Business Review. "Blue Ocean Strategy" highlights the distinct differences between market-competing (red ocean) and market-creating (blue ocean) strategy and what it takes to create the new markets of tomorrow. In "Red Ocean Traps," Kim and Mauborgne reveal the faulty assumptions that keep managers tethered to existing overcrowded markets (red oceans). "Blue Ocean Leadership" applies the concepts and analytic frameworks of blue ocean strategy to an innovative leadership approach that releases employees' untapped talent and energy while conserving their most precious resource-time. This collection is the ideal start, or refresher, for creating more blue oceans.

About the author

W. Chan Kim is the Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD business school and codirector of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. Kim is coauthor, with Renee Mauborgne, of the bestselling books Blue Ocean Strategy and Blue Ocean Shift.

Renee Mauborgne is the INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and a professor of strategy at INSEAD, one of the world's top business schools. She is also codirector of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. She cofounded the Blue Ocean Global Network with W. Chan Kim.

Steve Menasche is a conservatory-trained actor, musician, and martial artist who has toured the world with West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, and the American Folk Theatre. As a voice actor, he has completed over 250 audiobooks and has been featured in national radio and television campaigns.