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Leadership Book Club Schedule:

Plenty of options to participate:

• In person - with the option to purchase a box lunch or bring your own.
• Live Podcast – and the podcast will be available on demand immediately following
• Interactive online conversation

Past Bookclub Titles

Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

Tuesday, November 29 12 - 1:30pm @ the Jackson District Library, Carnegie Branch

Communicate best when it matters most! This is the definitive guide to clear, purpose-driven communication - revised and updated with new insights and powerful techniques. The classic guide to conversing in high-impact situations, "Crucial Conversations" helps you get constructive results when emotions run high and opinions vary, in the workplace and beyond. It explains how to: transform negative feelings into powerful dialog; make it safe to talk about almost anything; be persuasive, not abrasive; improve professional and personal relationships; and, impact productivity, quality, and safety in a positive way.

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

Wednesday, October 19 12 - 1:30pm @ the Jackson District Library, Carnegie Branch

The authors have published many articles over the last decade on Value Innovation. This is their first book. It summarizes their extensive knowledge on out-of-the-box strategic thinking.  What is a BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY? The authors explain it by comparing it to a red ocean strategy (traditional strategic thinking):
1. DO NOT compete in existing market space. INSTEAD you should create uncontested market space.
2. DO NOT beat the competition. INSTEAD you should make the competition irrelevant.
3. DO NOT exploit existing demand. INSTEAD you should create and capture new demand.
4. DO NOT make the value/cost trade-off. INSTEAD you should break the value/cost trade-off.
5. DO NOT align the whole system of a company's activities with its strategic choice of differentiation or low cost. INSTEAD you should align the whole system of a company's activities in pursuit of both differentiation and low cost.

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