Blue Ocean Strategy

Very rare do I find a book that is able to grab one's attention and encourage the reader to finish it till the end. One of the best book I've read to date is Blue Ocean Strategy (How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant) written by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.

The book intrigued me as it challenges some of the principles espoused by Michael Porter in his book Competitive Strategy and Competitive Advantage.

Making DigitalFilipino.com work and reach where it is today is heavily inspired by the books I've read and people I met. Will share more insight in future posts. Here are some of the books that have been most interesting:

Strategy:

• The Six Value Medals (Edward de Bono)
• Good to Great (Jim Collins)
• High Tech Start Up (John Nesheim)
• The Power of Unfair Advantage - How to Create It, Build It and Use It to Maximum Effect (John Nesheim)
• The Mystery of Capital (Hernando Desoto)
• Built to Last (Jim Collins)
  

Leadership:

• The Effective Executive in Action: A Journal for Getting the Right Things Done (Peter Drucker)
  
• Failing Forward (John Maxwell)
• 8th Habit (Stephen Covey)
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey)
• 17 Indisputable Laws of TeamWork Workbook (John Maxwell)
  

Thinking:

• Six Thinking Hats (Edward de Bono)
• Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
• Thinking for a Change (John Maxwell)

Spiritual:

• Grace for the Moment (Max Lucado)
  
• Leadership Promises for Every Day (John Maxwell)