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The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.

Michael Porter

Health care historically has been a very siloed field that’s organized around medical specialties – urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth – and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.
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Health History Medicine Organization Patient Service
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
If your goal is anything but profitability – if it’s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – you’ll hit problems.
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Big Goal Leadership Problem Profit Yourself
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.
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Basic Care Failure Health Need Patient
If all you’re trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it’s unlikely that you’ll be very successful.
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Rival Success Try Yourself
A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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Definition Goal Success Target Value
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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Effect Fundamental Operational Strategy
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
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Best Myself Strategy Teacher
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
If a strategy meets a goal: It’s working. If a strategy meets a target: It’s a success.
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Goal Inspirational Strategy Success Work
Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It’s not a matter of being better at what you do – it’s a matter of being different at what you do.
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Better Competition Different Started Yourself
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
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Choice Essence Strategy Yourself
Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.
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Cost Discussion Energy Fight Low Opportunity Technology Wonderful

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