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Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

Michael Porter

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.
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Cost Discussion Energy Fight Low Opportunity Technology Wonderful
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
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
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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Goal Right Sound Start
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
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
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.
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Competition Economy Face Generation Structure Weakness
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
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
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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Effect Fundamental Operational Strategy
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
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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Occur Rare Strategy

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