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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.

Michael Porter

Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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Occur Rare Strategy
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Choice Different Strategy Yourself
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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Goal Right Sound Start
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
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
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.
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Accomplishment Limitation Strategy Yourself
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
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
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Ability Change Constant Continue
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
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 company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Company Ideas Try Willing
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
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
Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the ‘wrong’ scenario occurs.
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Function Performance Poor Risk Strategy Wrong

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 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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