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 PORTERInnovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.
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There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the ‘wrong’ scenario occurs.
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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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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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Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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If a strategy meets a goal: It’s working. If a strategy meets a target: It’s a success.
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The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.
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The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
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