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Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

Michael Porter

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
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
You can’t be all things to all people.
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Be Yourself People Self Love
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
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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Economics Innovation Issues Prosperity
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.
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Activity Choice Competition Deliver Different Unique
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 purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.
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Creation Definition Economy Global Production Profit Purpose
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
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
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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Goal Right Sound Start
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Company Ideas Try Willing
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
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Choice Essence Strategy Yourself
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
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Change Endurance Pace Principle Technology
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

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