black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

Michael Porter

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
MICHAEL PORTER

Goal Right Sound Start
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
MICHAEL PORTER

Ability Change Constant Continue
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.
MICHAEL PORTER

Better Competition Different Started Yourself
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
MICHAEL PORTER

Effect Operational Performance Superior
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.
MICHAEL PORTER

Rival Success Try Yourself
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
MICHAEL PORTER

Choice Different Strategy Yourself
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
MICHAEL PORTER

Aim Goal Wasted Worth
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
MICHAEL PORTER

Effect Fundamental Operational Strategy
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
MICHAEL PORTER

Best Business Majority Simplicity
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.
MICHAEL PORTER

Basic Care Failure Health Need Patient
You can’t be all things to all people.
MICHAEL PORTER

Be Yourself People Self Love
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
MICHAEL PORTER

Choice Decline Kind Strategy
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
MICHAEL PORTER

Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
MICHAEL PORTER

Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
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.
MICHAEL PORTER

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.
MICHAEL PORTER

Health History Medicine Organization Patient Service

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Michael Porter Quotes