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Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

Michael Porter

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it’s the best perch… because most of my work crosses boundaries.
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Boundary Government Medicine Teaching
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
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
A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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Definition Goal Success Target Value
The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.
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Competition Economy Face Generation Structure Weakness
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
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
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
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
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Business Money Philanthropy Thinking Time Wasted Time
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
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
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

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