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Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

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
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
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Ability Change Constant Continue
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
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
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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Goal Right Sound Start
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
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Change Endurance Pace Principle Technology
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
You can’t be all things to all people.
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Be Yourself People Self Love
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they’re mutually reinforcing.
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Consistency Direction Each Other Improvement Strategy
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
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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Effect Fundamental Operational Strategy
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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Occur Rare Strategy
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Choice Different Strategy Yourself
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban

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