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The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
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Change Endurance Pace Principle Technology
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Company Ideas Try Willing
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
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Choice Essence Strategy Yourself
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention 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
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
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
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
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
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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Goal Right Sound Start
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
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 choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
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
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior

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