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In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”

Michael Porter

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
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Company Ideas Try Willing
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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Effect Fundamental Operational Strategy
You can’t be all things to all people.
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Be Yourself People Self Love
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
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 thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they’re mutually reinforcing.
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Consistency Direction Each Other Improvement Strategy
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
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
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
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
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Ability Change Constant Continue
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive

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