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

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
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
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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Economics Innovation Issues Prosperity
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
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
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
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 chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.
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Leadership Organization Strategy
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
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
A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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Definition Goal Success Target Value
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
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Choice Essence Strategy Yourself
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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Goal Right Sound Start
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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Occur Rare Strategy
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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