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Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Michael Porter

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
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Ability Change Constant Continue
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
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
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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Economics Innovation Issues Prosperity
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
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
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
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
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
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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Rival Success Try Yourself
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.
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Activity Choice Competition Deliver Different Unique
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

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