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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.

Michael Porter

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.
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Leadership Organization Strategy
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
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Change Endurance Pace Principle Technology
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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Effect Fundamental Operational 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
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
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 company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Company Ideas Try Willing
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
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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Economics Innovation Issues Prosperity
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
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
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Choice Different Strategy Yourself
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth

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