Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
MICHAEL PORTERYou can’t be all things to all people.
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Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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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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Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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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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If a strategy meets a goal: It’s working. If a strategy meets a target: It’s a success.
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The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
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You can’t be all things to all people.
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A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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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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In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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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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The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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