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The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Michael Porter

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
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
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
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
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
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Choice Different Strategy Yourself
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.
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Leadership Organization Strategy
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
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Ability Change Constant Continue
A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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Definition Goal Success Target Value
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
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
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
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
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

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