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The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

Michael Porter

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
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
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
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Ability Change Constant Continue
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
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Change Endurance Pace Principle Technology
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
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Choice Essence Strategy Yourself
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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Occur Rare Strategy
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 best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
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Best Myself Strategy Teacher
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
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Choice Different Strategy Yourself
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
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban

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