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Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.

Michael Porter

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
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Company Ideas Try Willing
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 choosing what not to do.
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Choice Essence 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
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
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
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
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 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 best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
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Best Myself Strategy Teacher
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
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

Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.

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