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

Michael Porter

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
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
You can’t be all things to all people.
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Be Yourself People Self Love
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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Effect Fundamental Operational Strategy
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
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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Company Seek Strategy Territory Unique
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
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
Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.
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Cost Discussion Energy Fight Low Opportunity Technology Wonderful
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
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Choice Different Strategy 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
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
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

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