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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.

Michael Porter

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
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
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
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.
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Leadership Organization 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
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
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Change Endurance Pace Principle Technology
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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Occur Rare Strategy
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
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
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
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
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
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
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy

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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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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