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There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

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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
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
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
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
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
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 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
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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Company Seek Strategy Territory Unique
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
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
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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Definition Goal Success Target Value
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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Economics Innovation Issues Prosperity
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
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Ability Change Constant Continue
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
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
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
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
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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Occur Rare Strategy
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
Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the ‘wrong’ scenario occurs.
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Function Performance Poor Risk Strategy Wrong
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
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Change Endurance Pace Principle Technology
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
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

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