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

Michael Porter

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
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
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
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
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
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Choice Essence Strategy Yourself
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
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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Company Seek Strategy Territory Unique
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
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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Goal Right Sound Start
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
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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Definition Goal Success Target Value
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
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 best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

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