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Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

Michael Porter

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
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
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
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Company Ideas Try Willing
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
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
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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Company Seek Strategy Territory Unique
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 chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.
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Leadership Organization Strategy
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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Economics Innovation Issues Prosperity
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
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Ability Change Constant Continue
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
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.
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Big Goal Leadership Problem Profit Yourself

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